Learning Quotes
“I wouldn't change anything. I think that it's important to let things happen, and stay 'happened'. I think that's all part of the learning curve, part of fate. I'm just glad that it happened.”
-- Mike Peters
“Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.”
-- Laura Bush
“The British system had requirements, including Latin. I'm not positive you ever had to know Greek, but there are certainly kinds of curricula where you had to know Greek too. I think in Britain there was the most mindless, repetitive sort of learning.”
-- William Scott
“Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.”
-- Orson Scott Card
“Generally, I like making my own mistakes and learning from them because that's what I think life is about.”
-- Taylor Momsen
“I'm pleased to say my knee feels a lot better. It's still not back to normal, and I don't know if it ever will be, but I'm learning to deal with it instead of expecting it to be like it was before.”
-- Shawn Johnson
“When Honor's sun declines, and Wealth takes wings, Then Learning shines, the best of precious things.”
-- Edward Cocker
“Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the learning that would enable them autonomously to seek that completion.”
-- Allan Bloom
“In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning.”
-- Jean Baudrillard
“As I was coming up, it always seemed like I was learning. If it wasn't from school, it was the 'hood. The influences of the 'hood are very powerful.”
-- Junior Seau
“I hope the cooks who are working for me now are getting that kind of experience so they can use what they're learning now as a foundation for a great career.”
-- Thomas Keller
“What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don't now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared.”
-- Doris Lessing
“It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical.”
-- Alan Perlis