Learning Quotes
“I always found the extraordinary loss of life in the First World War very moving. I remember learning about it as a very young child, as an eight- or nine-year-old, asking my teachers what poppies were for. Every year the teachers would suddenly wear these red paper flowers in their lapels, and I would say 'What does that mean?'”
“Everything starts and ends with the song, and working with writers and really learning their process and craft was an invaluable experience.”
-- Tommy Mottola
“The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.”
-- Baruch Spinoza
“The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.”
-- Mortimer Adler
“Home schooled children frequently combine for many purposes - and they interact well. The growth of the home schooling movement means that more and more children are learning together, just not in a traditional classroom.”
-- Ernest Istook
“I took the process of doing as much myself as I could like a duck to water. I set up my own label and publishing, etc, and it was a fun learning curve two decades ago.”
-- David Knopfler