Learning Quotes
“When we think about online learning, it's such 'early days.' Bill Gates is a wildly smart insightful guy. Yet, even a guy as smart and insightful as that, 30 years ago can say things like,'Who's every going to need more than 640K of memory?'”
“Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.”
-- Edward Young
“Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.”
-- John Holt
“A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard.”
-- Eliphas Levi
“In this business, if you take too long, the landscape changes. So the opportunities that were there when I decided to take a break weren't there when I came back. It's like, 'Wait a second - what happened here?' It was a real learning experience. I've paid my dues, I will tell you that.”
-- Chris O'Donnell
“Since its founding in 1854, Penn State has proven to be a leading institution of higher learning.”
-- Tim Holden
“I tell students, 'If you are learning from YouTube I almost don't want to teach you because what you learn from YouTube it takes 10 times as long to unlearn.' They do an approximation of the centre of the note, an approximation of the interpretation, a cloned version.”
-- Kiri Te Kanawa