Quotes by Learning You either learn your way towards writing your own script in life, or you unwittingly become an actor in someone else's script. John Taylor Gatto learningwritinglife [The main focus in my life now is] to open people's minds so no one will be so conceited that they think they have the total truth. They should be eager to learn, to listen, to research and not to confine, to hurt, to kill, those who disagree with them. John Templeton optimisticlearninghurt One of the first things a family tries to teach its children is the difference between good and evil, right and wrong. One of the first things our schools do is destroy that distinction. John Taylor Gatto learningchildrenschool I've concluded that genius is as common as dirt. We suppress genius because we haven't yet figured out how to manage a population of educated men and women. The solution, I think, is simple and glorious. Let them manage themselves. John Taylor Gatto learningmenthinking Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making. John Milton learningwritingpeace The old system where every child was locked away and set into nonstop, daily cut throat competition with every other child for silly prizes called grades is broken beyond repair. If it could be fixed it could have been fixed by now. Good riddance. John Taylor Gatto learningsillychildren It was never factually true that young people learn to read or do arithmetic primarily by being taught these things. These things are learned, but not really taught at all. Over-teaching interferes with learning, although the few who survive it may well come to imagine it was by an act of teaching. John Taylor Gatto learningteachingpeople Creative work and critical thought, which produces new knowledge, can't be conditioned; indeed, conditioning prevents these things from ever happening. John Taylor Gatto conditioninglearningcreative Genius is an exceedingly common human quality, probably natural to most of us. John Taylor Gatto learningeducationalinspirational Enflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue; stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots, dear to God, and famous to all ages. John Milton learningbraverymen School presents daily exercises in dis-association. It forces unwelcome associations on most of its prisoners. It sets petty, meaningless competitions in motion on a daily basis, pitting potential associates against one another in contests for praise and other worthless prizes. John Taylor Gatto learningexerciseschool School is about learning to wait your turn, however long it takes to come, if ever. And how to submit with a show of enthusiasm to the judgment of strangers, even if they are wrong, even if your enthusiasm is phony. John Taylor Gatto learninglongschool We presuppose two things: that there is yet to be learned infinitely more than is now known, and that man can learn it. John W. Campbell learningmentwo What we do not understand we do not possess. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe learningwisdomeducation One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure. John W. Gardner failurelearningreading 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. John Updike learningeducationyears He who knows no foreign languages knows nothing of his own. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe learningknowinginspiration Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune's always here. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe good-fortunelearningfortune 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. John W. Gardner failurelearningwant It's not up to us what we learn, but merely whether we learn through joy or through pain. John Updike learningpaineducation«4849505152535455565758»
