Quotes by Learning We need to create schools that are organized to meet the needs of the kids they serve instead of what we've been doing. We expect kids to adjust to the schools and if they can't, we say something is wrong with the child - instead of focusing on engagement and nurturing the love of learning in kids. Pedro Noguera learningeducationchildren 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. Pearl S. Buck learninghealthyjoy A reader does not suddenly comprehend what is being read or studied, in a snap, miraculously. Comprehension needs to be worked forged, by those who read and study; as subjects of the action, they must seek to employ appropriate instruments in order to carry out the task. For this very reason, reading and studying form a challenging task, one requiring patience and perseverance. Paulo Freire perseverancelearningreading I knew I couldn't sing over them, so I decided to sing under them. The more noise they made the more softly I sang. When they discovered they couldn't hear me, they began to look at me. Then they began to listen. As I sang, I kept thinking, 'softly with feeling.' The noise dropped to a hum; the hum gave way to silence. I had learned how to reach and hold my audience -- softly, with feeling. Peggy Lee learningsilencethinking We are all afraid. That's the thing that unites all truly successful people: fear, fear of failing, fear of criticism, fear of letting down the team in some way. That why they try so hard, that's why they pay attention to detail and try to get every possible duck in a row. It's fear Peggy Noonan learningteamteaching But let me say this about learning experiences: they're weird. Or put it this way: what you learn from a learning experience is generally something else. Peg Bracken experiencelearningway We must be forewarned that only rarely does a text easily lend itself to the reader's curiosity... the reading of a text is a transaction between the reader and the text, which mediates the encounter between the reader and writer. It is a composition between the reader and the writer in which the reader "rewrites" the text making a determined effort not to betray the author's spirit. Paulo Freire effortlearningreading Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know. Pema Chodron learningspirituallife There's no point sitting here, using words that mean nothing. Go and experiment. It's time you got out of here. Go and re-conquer your kingdom, which has grown corrupted by routine. Stop repeating the same lesson, because you won't learn anything new that way. Paulo Coelho learningtimemotivational Imagination is as vital to any advance in science as learning and precision are essential for starting points. Percival Lowell aquariumslearningscience You must learn to sit with the restless, painful energy and not let the momentum pull you under and cause you to do the same thing over and over that's ruining your life and the lives of those around you. Pema Chodron learningenergylife When will we ever learn? When will we ever learn? Pete Seeger learning The only power you have on this planet is the power of your decisions. Paulo Coelho learningpowerinspirational There is only one way to learn... It's through action. Paulo Coelho alchemistlearninglife I learned the most important lesson of my life: that the extraordinary is not the birthright of a chosen and privileged few, but of all people, even the humblest. That is my one certainty: we are all the manifestation of the divinity of God. Paulo Coelho learninginspirationallife Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong: They learn in suffering what they teach in song. Percy Bysshe Shelley learningsongmen The task of leadership is to be intentional about the way we group people and the questions that we engage them in. Peter Block learningpeopleknowledge The shift in the world begins with a shift in our thinking. Shifting our thinking does not change the world, but it creates a condition where the shift in the world becomes possible. Peter Block learningknowledgethinking Good questions work on us, we don't work on them. They are not a project to be completed but a doorway opening onto greater depth of understanding, actions that will take us into being more fully alive. Peter Block learningunderstandingteaching We need to tell people not to be helpful. Trying to be helpful and giving advise are really ways to control others. ... Advice, recommendations, and obvious actions are exactly what increase the likelihood that tomorrow will be just like yesterday. Peter Block learningyesterdayknowledge«6768697071727374757677»
