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If you want to be a reference librarian, you must learn to overcome not only your shyness but also the shyness of others!
Learning is a daily experience and a lifetime mission. I truly believe in the saying "We work to become, not to acquire."
As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
The purpose of adult education is to help them to learn, not to teach them all you know and thus stop them from learning.
For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women.
The strength of character and emotional intelligence to face your failures and learn from them are at the core of success.
People learn what they want to learn. If learning is forced on us, even if we master it temporarily, it is soon forgotten.
The young child approaching a new subject or anew problem is like the scientist operating at the edge of his chosen field.
Our learning ought to be our lives' amendment, and the fruits of our private study ought to appear in our public behavior.
My goal in the classroom was always to make sure they were having so much fun that they didn't realize they were learning.
When the purge of teacher individualism is unrestrained, eccentricity, initiative and individuality become the casualties.
The single greatest effect on student achievement is not race, it is not poverty - it is the effectiveness of the teacher.
Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.
I have to say I've made many mistakes, and been humbled many, many times. But you know what? It's never too late to learn.
A creative idea will be defined simply as one that is both novel and useful or influential in a particular social setting.
If you are a man of learning, read something classic, a history of the human struggle and don't settle for mediocre verse.
Apart from my children, spending time with refugees was the greatest gift... the greatest life lesson I could ever receive.
I don't ever want to stop learning. And I really want to learn French fluently. It would be great to go and live in France.
Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.
We must establish a personal connection with each other. Connection before content. Without relatedness, no work can occur.
An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.
Who has not been amazed to learn that the function y = ex, like a phoenix rising from its own ashes, is its own derivative?
I have always believed and promoted the fact that education and access to the knowledge society involves lifelong learning.
By the time you're 30, you know who you are inside. You learn to laugh at things you can't change; you learn to be yourself.
More important than talent, strength, or knowledge is the ability to laugh at yourself and enjoy the pursuit of your dreams.
Learning is by nature curiosity... prying into everything, reluctant to leave anything, material or immaterial, unexplained.
Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.
We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.
I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who.
The Common Curriculum can easily become the karaoke curriculum, where everyone just follows the bouncing ball of the script.
A programming language is like a natural, human language in that it favors certain methaphors, images, and ways of thinking.
The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.
Black is beautiful when it is a slum kid studying to enter college, when it is a man learning new skills for a new job. . . .
Socrates asks him the crucial question about education, and that is, If you study with this fellow, what will he make of you?
Disciples do owe their masters only a temporary belief, and a suspension of their own judgment till they be fully instructed.
Tell me a fact, and I'll learn. Tell me a truth, and I'll believe. But tell me a story, and it will live in my heart forever.
Your most memorable students are in your first classes and your last classes: make your last years the finest of your career.
It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing.
People don't always have the vision, and the secret for the person with the vision is to stand up. It takes a lot of courage.
It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and - even more surprising - it takes the whole of life to learn how to die.
Anybody who has ever "gotten it" by following some so-called method, has gotten it in spite of the method, not because of it.
The root of the word education is e-ducere, literally, to lead forth, or to bring out something which is potentially present.
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
Giving the Linus Torvalds Award to the Free Software Foundation is a bit like giving the Han Solo Award to the Rebel Alliance.
Whenever anything negative happens to you, there is a deep lesson concealed within it, although you may not see it at the time
Let the main object... to seek and to find a method of instruction, by which teachers may teach less, but learners learn more.
I know you think you understand what you thought I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
Learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
The real technology -behind all our other technologies- is language. It actually creates the world our consciousness lives in.