Learning Quotes
“My father had never watched tennis, never liked tennis too much. He said, 'OK, we buy a racket, we watch together,' because we didn't know anything. It was a process of learning together that made it more interesting.”
“Well, immediately we announced yesterday or the day before we're building, with my foundation, a youth tennis and learning center in Austin. I'd like to be hands on with that and not see it periodically.”
-- Andy Roddick
“But I think it's hard for me to only put out one record a year. Because I get too antsy. But it's good I'm learning to do that, because each record counts. And you should make it count.”
-- Ty Segall
“A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher.”
-- James S. Coleman
“It is literally the case that learning languages makes you smarter. The neural networks in the brain strengthen as a result of language learning.”
-- Michael Gove
“Emotional 'literacy' implies an expanded responsibility for schools in helping to socialize children. This daunting task requires two major changes: that teachers go beyond their traditional mission and that people in the community become more involved with schools as both active participants in children's learning and as individual mentors.”
-- Daniel Goleman