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He who knows how to teach a child is not competent for the oversight of a child's education unless he also knows how to train a child.
The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and which never will grow dim or doubtful.
Creative thinking may mean simply the realization that there's no particular virtue in doing things the way they have always been done.
We learn as much from sorrow as from joy, as much from illness as from health, from handicap as from advantage and indeed perhaps more.
To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.
The importance of art is in the process of doing it, in the learning experience where the artist interacts with whatever is being made.
Learning maketh young men temperate, is the comfort of old age, standing for wealth with poverty, and serving as an ornament to riches.
An individual who stands out, or disagrees or takes risks is a danger to such systems and is effortlessly and, unconsciously sidelined.
One of the chief duties of the mathematician in acting as an advisor ... is to discourage ... from expecting too much from mathematics.
[on education] It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know, and it's knowing how to use the information once you get it.
Learning the Italian was tough. I tried to really come at from a purist perspective, really learn the grammar, syntax and conjugations.
Standardized personalization=universal right to meaningful learning. Personalized standardization=flexible access to mandated learning.
We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.
Our system of education is locked in a time capsule. You want to say to the people in charge, 'You're not using today's tools! Wake up!'
Machine learning allows us to build software solutions that exceed human understanding and shows us how AI can innervate every industry.
Nothing has tended more to retard the advancement of science than the disposition in vulgar minds to vilify what they cannot comprehend.
Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.
Humility is the first step towards learning. You can’t learn until you are humble enough to realize there is something for you to learn.
If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing.
It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.
But the great Master said, "I see No best in kind, but in degree; I gave a various gift to each, To charm, to strengthen, and to teach".
Everyone makes mistakes. The wise are not people who never make mistakes, but those who forgive themselves and learn from their mistakes.
Nulla (enim) res tantum ad dicendum proficit, quantum scriptio Nothing so much assists learning as writing down what we wish to remember.
The most important advice I can offer is that writing is a craft that you can learn by practicing. If you keep writing, you will improve.
Schools that cannot tolerate interesting & enthusiastic eccentrics who work better alone than together are devoid of flexibility & spirit
What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way of looking at the world and learning.
Without optimism & self-belief among teachers, classrooms become wastelands of boredom & routine and schools deserts of lost opportunity.
Don't you hate code that's not properly indented? Making it [indenting] part of the syntax guarantees that all code is properly indented.
There is more to us than we know. If we can be made to see it, perhaps for the rest of our lives we will be unwilling to settle for less.
It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to advance civilization.
I found in rules of mathematics a peace and a trust that I could not place in human beings. This sublimation was total and remained total.
Let proportion be found not only in numbers and measures, but also in sounds, weights, times, and positions, and what ever force there is.
For pleasure you can read the games collections of Andersson and Chigorin, but for benefit you should study Tarrasch, Keres and Bronstein.
Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.
March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.
Throughout the ages there have always been those who have been willing to go beyond the norms and reach for that unknown and distant star.
Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure-all your life.
Our educational system basically strives for normal-which is too bad. Sometimes the exceptional is classified as abnormal and pushed aside.
What any person in the world can learn, almost all persons can learn if provided with appropriate prior and current conditions of learning.
Besides a mathematical inclination, an exceptionally good mastery of one's native tongue is the most vital asset of a competent programmer.
All good activities which encourage people to learn how to live with one another pleasantly and to develop a sense of humor improve living.
Sadly, children's passion for thinking often ends when they encounter a world that seeks to educate them for conformity and obedience only.
Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.
The most important thing I've learned since becoming CEO is context. It's how your company fits in with the world and how you respond to it.
The basic economic resource - the means of production - is no longer capital, nor natural resources, nor labor. It is and will be knowledge.
No human being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature which holds its life by the same tenure that he does.
The purpose of learning to employ every minute properly is to unclutter our hours, deliver us of feverish activity and earn us true leisure.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that I'm learning to not want to be someone else, to just be who I am, as is, with nothing extra added on.