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As a child in Atuan, Tenar had learned how to learn. There seemed always to be a great deal to be le...

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A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in w...

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A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in w...

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People are unlearning certain things, and they do well, provided that, while unlearning them they le...

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I was always going to the bookcase for another sip of the divine specific.

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

had no need of a guide to learn ignorance

Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a lea...

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And the final product of our training must be neither a psychologist nor a brick mason, but a man. A...

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Schools are made for the average. The holes are all round, and whatever shape the pegs are they must...

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What stays with you longest and deepest? Of curious panics, of hard-fought engagements or sieges tre...

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re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, and dismiss whatever insults y...

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My words itch at your ears till you understand them

Those [things] that we encounter for the first time immediately have a spiritual effect upon us. A c...

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History is an excellent teacher with few pupils.

There are three kinds of men. The ones that learn by readin’. The few who learn by observation. The ...

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In teaching the young you have to satisfy the schoolchild in yourself and enter the region where all...

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William Barrett (philosopher)The Illusion of Technique: A Search for Meaning in a Technological Civilization

The day we stop playing will be the day we stop learning.

Unless education promotes character making, unless it helps men to be more moral, more just to their...

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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

The most influential of all educational factor is the conversation in a child's home.

The most influential of all educational factor is the conversation in a child's home.

I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which un...

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The little child learns to speak, though it has no learned teachers - because it lives with those wh...

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Now I realized that life supplies us with everything we need for the journey. Everything I had acqui...

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Íngrid BetancourtEven Silence Has an End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle

"Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. H...

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Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice.

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.

The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation is the philosophy of government in the next.

It is always in season for old men to learn.

I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them ...

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Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.

Importance of the random: keep brushing up against people, books, experiences we don't yet know what...

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Maturity/experience: the beguiling texture of stones subjected to years of furious seas.

Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.

[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and t...

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...to her all books were the same and, as with her subjects, she felt a duty to approach them withou...

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I don’t think people realise how vital libraries are or what a colossal danger it would be if we wer...

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It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entir...

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It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by me...

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Combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought.

The formulation of the problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matt...

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Any fool can know. The point is to understand.

It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.

I didn't start writing songs, honestly, until I started making my album. I was always doing poetry, ...

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A little learning is a dangerous thing Drink deep or taste not the Pierian spring Their shallow d...

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A little learning is a dangerous thing.Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring;There shallow dra...

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The more we want our children to be (1) lifelong learners, genuinely excited about words and numbers...

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Get your knowledge quickly and then use it. If you can use it you will retain it.

I learned a world from each / one whom I loved

Education is beautification of the inner world and the outer world.

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Amit RayNonviolence: The Transforming Power

Education is unfolding the wings of head and heart together. The job of a teacher is to push the stu...

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Education is that process by which thought is opened out of the soul, and, associated with outward ....

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[Cornell University will be] an asylum for Science—where truth shall be sought for truth's sake, not...

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Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating ...

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André GidePretexts;: Reflections on literature and morality

As I looked out at the glittering waters of the Pacific I was seeing for Carl. He knew that it's not...

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There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of ...

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I am no scientist. I explore the neighbourhood. An infant who has just learned to hold his head up h...

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I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.

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Annie DillardTeaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters

I was impressed for the ten thousandth time by the fact that literature illuminates life only for th...

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These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, w...

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These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, w...

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Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning.

One must learn by doing the thing, for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you...

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Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.

Why should you go further in it? What have you to gain from it?''What, indeed? It is art for art's s...

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Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning.

It was amusing to me to see how the detective's overbearing manner had changed suddenly to that of a...

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Arthur Conan DoyleThe Return of Sherlock Holmes

The country inspector's face had shown his intense amazement at the rapid and masterful progress of ...

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Arthur Conan DoyleThe Return of Sherlock Holmes

Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are locat...

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Before going back to college, i knew i didn't want to be an intellectual, spending my life in books ...

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You don't read Gatsby, I said, to learn whether adultery is good or bad but to learn about how compl...

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We have eyelids but not earlids, for the ears are the portals of learning, and Nature wanted to keep...

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Deal with people from whom you can learn

By including children with different learning abilities in mainstream and specialized schools, we ca...

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I never learn anything from listening to myself.

I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the ro...

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Barbara KingsolverThe Poisonwood Bible

Over the years, one comes to measure a place, too, not just for the beauty it may give, the balmines...

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In all the difficult decisions that I made through the course of running Loudcloud and Opsware, I ne...

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I don't divide the world into the weak and the strong, or the successes and the failures. I divide t...

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Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.

For the best return on your money, pour your purse into your head.

Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be ...

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Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that.

Intellectually, what is stimulating to a young man is a problem of obvious practical importance. A y...

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In my day the principal concerns of university students were sex, smoking dope, rioting and learning...

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Bill BrysonThe Lost Continent & Neither Here Nor There

If you're an adult and you choose not to believe in science, fine, but please don't prevent your chi...

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Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being pe...

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Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being pe...

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Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being pe...

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Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being pe...

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Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being pe...

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Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being pe...

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