Quotes by Learning We always hate the school room where we learn hard lessons. But then we love it, because that's the school that taught us all we know, and gave us all the strength we have. Gwen Bristow learninghateeducation See that any time you feel pained or defeated, it is only because you insist on clinging to what doesn't work. Dare to let go and you won't lose a thing except for a punishing idea. Guy Finley learningletting-goideas The advances of biology during the past 20 years have been breathtaking, particularly in cracking the mystery of heredity. Nevertheless, the greatest and most difficult problems still lie ahead. The discoveries of the 1970's about the chemical roots of memory in nerve cells or the basis of learning, about the complex behavior of man and animals, the nature of growth, development, disease and aging will be at least as fundamental and spectacular as those of the recent past. H. Bentley Glass learningmemorieslying Knowledge increases in proportion to its use; that is, the more we teach the more we learn. H. P. Blavatsky learningeducationknowledge The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality. H. L. Mencken learninglibertyeducation Learning to take hold of one's life is very difficult in a culture that values property over life. Haki R. Madhubuti learninglife-isculture We have also obtained a glimpse of another crucial idea about languages and program design. This is the approach of statified design, the notion that a complex system should be structured as a sequence of levels that are described using a sequence of languages. Each level is constructed by combining parts that are regarded as primitive at that level, and the parts constructed at each level are used as primitives at the next level. The language used at each level of a stratified design has primitives, means of combination, and means of abstraction appropriate to that level of detail. Hal Abelson learningmeanideas The computer revolution is a revolution in the way we think and in the way we express what we think. The essence of this change is the emergence of what might best be called procedural epistemology-the study of the structure of knowledge from an imperative point of view, as opposed to the more declarative point of view taken by classical mathematical subjects. Hal Abelson learningtakenthinking I immediately cotton on to the fact that intelligence thus lightly used, and one-upmanshipishly displayed, is a birthmark giving me a two-coloured face, is a goitre, a hump on the back, webbed toes, and makes me stink like the night-man. Once again I learn what I knew on my very first day at Kensington School, and have carelessly forgotten, that it is more intelligent to appear less intelligent. I henceforth rein myself in, and publicly give back only what I have been given - fifty-six for seven- eights. Hal Porter learningeducationschool If your life is free of failures, you're not taking enough risks. H. Jackson Brown, Jr. failurelearningteaching Our task as we grow older in a rapidly advancing science, is to retain the capacity of joy in discoveries which correct older ideas, and to learn from our pupils as we teach them. Hans Zinsser learningdiscoveryideas For the problem of decision-making in our complicated world is not how to get the problem simple enough so that we can all understand it; the problem is how to get our thinking about the problem as complex as humanly possible--and thus approach (we can never match) the complexity of the real world around us. Harlan Cleveland learningrealsimple Computer science is to biology what calculus is to physics. It's the natural mathematical technique that best maps the character of the subject. Harold Morowitz learningtechniquecharacter There were no object lessons, and the studies of bookkeeping and French were pursued (but never effectually overtaken. H. G. Wells learningstudyeducation Is it too ingenuous to imagine that anything can be left to say about a garden? Garden literature, descriptive, reminiscent, and technical, has blossomed so profusely among us during the last decade, that he should be an expert indeed who ventures to add thereto. Harrison Gray Otis Dwight learninggardeneducation The single greatest effect on student achievement is not race, it is not poverty - it is the effectiveness of the teacher. Harry Wong learningraceteacher It is the teacher - what the teacher knows and can do - that is the most significant factor in student achievement. Harry Wong achievementlearningteacher The psychologists and the metaphysicians wrangle endlessly over the nature of the thinking process in man, but no matter how violently they differ otherwise they all agree that it has little to do with logic and is not much conditioned by overt facts. H. L. Mencken learningtruthknowledge Programming is similar to a game of golf. The point is not getting the ball in the hole but how many strokes it takes. Hayley Mills learninggamesgolf The only way for errors to occur in a program is by being put there by the author. No other mechanisms are known. Programs can't acquire bugs by sitting around with other buggy programs. Right practice aims at preventing insertion of errors and, failing that, removing them before testing or any other running of the program. Hayley Mills learningerrorsrunning«3435363738394041424344»
