8/3/2019 Learning Quotes

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I have never in my life learned anything from any man whoagreed with me. - Dudley Field Malone

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight. - ThomasCalyle, Scottish essayist and historian

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education - MarkTwain

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery. - Mark VanDoren, poet

Learning without thought is labor lost. Thought without learning isintellectual death. - Confucius (551-479 B.C.)

When you know something, say what you know. When you don'tknow something, say that you don't know. That is knowledge." -Kung Fu Tzu (Confucius)

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialecticbetween the two. - Octavio Paz

Education is what survives when what has been learned has beenforgotten. - B. F. Skinner

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands,but in seeing with new eyes. - Marcel Proust, French novelist

I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditionsin which they can learn. - Albert Einstein

Learning is not a spectator sport. - D. Blocher

You cannot teach a man anything. You can only help himdiscover it within himself. - Galileo Galilei

"Learning is not so much an additive process, with new learningsimply piling up on top of existing knowledge, as it is an active,dynamic process in which the connections are constantlychanging and the structure reformatted."

K. Patricia Cross

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The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." -John Powell

I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think Socrates

It is what we think we know already that often preventsus from learning.

Claude Bernard

Sometimes the last thing learners need is for theirpreferred learning style to be affirmed. Agreeing to letpeople learn only in a way that feels comfortable andfamiliar can restrict seriously their chance fordevelopment.

Steven Brookfield

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not thePierian spring.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744)