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People aren't born strong. People grow stronger little by little, encountering difficult situations, learning not to run from them.
To be a teacher you must be a prophet - because you are trying to prepare people for a world thirty to fifty years into the future.
The important question is whether [a theory] is true, not whether envisioning an alternative is too intellectually painful to bear.
I realised that reading was the key that opened the door to secret lands, strange places and the worlds behind other people's eyes.
We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance. Only by learning to love one another can our world be saved. Only love can conquer all.
If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
Patience helps us to view imperfections in others more generously to the end that we may learn to be more wise than they have been.
There is no easy method of learning difficult things. The method is to close the door, give out that you are not at home, and work.
Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.
It's a big theme in my life, learning about myself and being a better person. I'm a work in progress; I have revelations every day.
He who learns the rules of wisdom, without conforming to them in his life, is like a man who labored in his fields, but did not sow
We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.
A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts; but as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they become our own.
Teachers and administrators sleepwalk through their responsibilities, dulled and discouraged by the endless pressures and problems.
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
I answered that one learns to live, not by hearing of other lives, but by living; for words are infinitely less important than acts.
. . . the great thing to learn about life is, first, not to do what you don't want to do, and, second, to do what you do want to do.
Unless I'm wrong I but obey The urge of a song: I'm-bound-away! And I may return If dissatisfied With what I learn From having died.
Learning is a process whereby a human being, or group, or organization, or society comes to understand and embody nature's patterns.
A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism...the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young.
The human body is river of intelligence, energy and information that is constantly renewing itself in every second of its existence.
Of all evil things the least quantity is to be borne, but of learning and knowledge, the more a man hath, the better he can bear it.
The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.
Coaching is unlocking a person's potential to maximize their own performance. It is helping them to learn rather than teaching them.
Human reason can neither predict nor deliberately shape its own future. Its advances consist in finding out where it has been wrong.
You think you KNOW when you learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts... it is to teach them to think.
Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself.
My parents were comfortable with me exploring areas that they were not proficient in. Some parents just aren't comfortable with that.
The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.
If someone is unpleasant to you, draw a halo around his or her head in your mind. He/she is an angel who came to teach you something.
That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted.
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
It is difficult to retain what you may have learned unless you should practice it. -Difficile est tenere quae acceperis nisi exerceas
I learned that it is possible for us to create light, sound and order within us no matter what calamity befall us in the outer world.
There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.
Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.
Some people learn from books, some listen to the advice of others, some learn from mistakes. I fit into the last category. So sue me.
A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation.
Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
I will consistently strive to learn by what I hear, see, and feel. I will write down the important things I learn, and I will do them.
In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn
A technician is a man who understands everything about his job except its ultimate purpose and its place in the order of the universe.
I take great solace that Einstein failed math. I failed math. I also failed English and home economics. Einstein was an underachiever.
This attitude [the abstract method in mathematics] can be encapsulated in the following slogan: a mathematical object is what it does.
While nature thus very early and very abundantly feeds us, she is very late in tutoring us as to the proper methodization of our diet.
I always tell kids, you have two eyes and one mouth. Keep two open and one closed. You never learn anything if you're the one talking.