Learning Quotes
“It disturbs me when Obama says in the State of the Union address that he wants to make dropping out of school at 18 illegal, because people learn differently and before there are forms of learning for every type of person in the world, we shouldn't be condemned for leaving.”
“Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.”
-- Denis Waitley
“I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
-- Henry David Thoreau
“Think about how much it costs to incarcerate someone. Do we want them just sitting in prison, lifting weights, becoming violent and thinking about the next crime? Or do we want them having a little purpose in life and learning a skill?”
-- John Ensign
“In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not DNA.”
-- Gregory Bateson
“Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory.”
-- Ray Charles