Quotes by Learning The essence of education is not to stuff you with facts but to help you discover your uniqueness, to teach you how to develop it, and then to show you how to give it away. Leo Buscaglia learningessencegiving A total immersion in life offers the best classroom for learning to love. Leo Buscaglia learningcouragelife In the pursuit of learning, every day something is acquired. In the pursuit of Tao, every day something is dropped. Laozi taoismpursuitlearning It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them. Leo Buscaglia learningeducationalfun Whatever you do in life, if you want to be creative and intelligent, and develop your brain, you must do everything with the awareness that everything, in some way, connects to everything else. Leonardo da Vinci learningintelligentcreative Socrates asks him the crucial question about education, and that is, If you study with this fellow, what will he make of you? Leroy S Rouner askslearningstudy There is a race between the increasing complexity of the systems we build and our ability to develop intellectual tools for understanding their complexity. If the race is won by our tools, then systems will eventually become easier to use and more reliable. If not, they will continue to become harder to use and less reliable for all but a relatively small set of common tasks. Given how hard thinking is, if those intellectual tools are to succeed, they will have to substitute calculation for thought. Leslie Lamport learningracethinking Abandon learning and there will be no sorrow. Laozi abandonlearningsorrow Inaction saps the vigor of the mind. Leonardo da Vinci saplearningmind Let proportion be found not only in numbers and measures, but also in sounds, weights, times, and positions, and what ever force there is. Leonardo da Vinci learningtimescience Today's sensitive male has learned to share in open frank discussions about relationships like, "Where the hell did you get a crazy idea like that? You been reading Redbook again?" Lewis Grizzard learningcrazyreading As evolutionary time is measured, we have only just turned up and have hardly had time to catch breath, still marveling at our thumbs, still learning to use the brand-new gift of language. Being so young, we can be excused all sorts of folly and can permit ourselves the hope that someday, as a species, we will begin to grow up. Lewis Thomas growing-uplearningscience Science is founded on uncertainty. Each time we learn something new and surprising, the astonishment comes with the realization that we were wrong before. Lewis Thomas learningrealizationscience We have dominated and overruled nature, and from now on the earth is ours, a kitchen garden until we learn to make our own chlorophyll and float it out in the sun inside plastic mebranes. We will build Scarsdale on Mount Everest. Lewis Thomas learningnaturescience Every decade needs its own manual of handicraft. Liberty Hyde Bailey learningeducationneeds It's just plain learning something that you didn't know. There is a real aesthetic experience in being dumbfounded. Lewis Thomas aestheticlearningreal On the whole, the enjoyment of leisure is something which decidedly costs less than the enjoyment of luxury. All it requires is an artistic temperament which is bent on seeking a perfectly useless afternoon spent in a perfectly useless manner. Lin Yutang learninginspirationallife If we taught babies to talk as most skills are taught in school, they would memorize lists of sounds in a predetermined order and practice them alone in a closet. Linda Darling-Hammond learningeducationbaby How is it that so often . . . I get the feeling I've worked hard to learn something I already know, or knew, once. Linda Ellerbee learningknowsfeelings [Instead of collecting stamps, he collected dictionaries and encyclopaedias:] Because you can learn more from them. Linus Pauling stampslearningscience«5455565758596061626364»
