Learning Quotes

“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

“I know what I like when I see it, but no way have I ever become interested in learning about it.”

-- Timothy Spall

“Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sympathy and cultural outlook of children.”

-- Michael Gove

“When I was 8 years old, I knew nothing about martial arts. The coach told me I was talented with learning martial arts, and put me in a school.”

-- Jet Li

“Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?”

-- Bill Watterson

“Learning what you don't want to do is pretty valuable, it may be as valuable as figuring out what it is you do want to do.”

-- Joe Flanigan

“I am just learning to notice the different colors of the stars, and already begin to have a new enjoyment.”

-- Maria Mitchell

“Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time.”

-- Timothy Leary

“I knew nothing about martial arts. The coach told me I was talented with learning martial arts, and put me in a school. Three years later I got my first championship in China.”

-- Jet Li

“There has to be innate circuitry that does the learning, that creates the culture, that acquires the culture, and that responds to socialization.”

-- Steven Pinker