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I don't divide the world into the weak and the strong, or the successes
and the failures, those who make it or those who don't. I divide the
world into learners and non-learners. -Benjamin Barber
The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of
continually asking questions. -Bishop Mandell Creighton
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from
him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. -Benjamin
Franklin
Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what
happens to him. -Aldous Huxley
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and
write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. -Alvin Toffler
It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know. -Henry
David Thoreau (1817-1862)
There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of
others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of
encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our
thoughts. -George Matthew Adams
No knowledge is unimportant. No response to beauty is unimportant. And,
in fact, the most exciting thing of all is the exploration of new and
interesting and beautiful things. - Franklin D. Murphy
Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It
is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral. -John Burroughs [Time and Change]
The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it. -James Bryce
Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time. -Mark Twain
The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
-Saint Augustine
Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion,
adoption. -John Stuart Mill
I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do
better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than
under a spirit of criticism. -Charles Schwab
Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is
a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a
vegetarian. - Dennis Wholey
A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting. -Abraham
Maslow (1908-1970)
Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great
teacher. - Japanese proverb
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from
him. - Galileo Galilei
The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst
lovely things. - Plato
I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to
have
been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now
and
then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst
the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. - Isaac Newton
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
They know enough who know how to learn. - Henry Adams
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural
curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
- Anatole France
6-5-08 Version, www.cs.ucla.edu/~klinger/8_learn.html