“I saw as a teacher how, if you take that spark of learning that those children have, and you ignite it, you can take a child from any background to a lifetime of creativity and accomplishment.”
Learning does not stop when school ends — if anything, that is when it really begins. These quotes celebrate curiosity, growth, the discomfort of being a beginner, and the deep satisfaction of understanding something that confused you yesterday.
“Quality afterschool programs provide safe, engaging and fun learning experiences to help children and youth develop their social, emotional, physical, cultural and academic skills.”
“I saw as a teacher how, if you take that spark of learning that those children have, and you ignite it, you can take a child from any background to a lifetime of creativity and accomplishment.”
“Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.”
“Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.”
“Learning lines is on my mind until I do know them. I'll read the paper or paint the house to keep from starting to memorize. I've never found an easy way.”
“Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.”
“This life is a process of learning.”
“I am learning to forgive my inner geek, and even value him as a free man.”
“A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.”
“One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success.”
“No phenomenon can be isolated, but has repercussions through every aspect of our lives. We are learning that we are a fundamental part of nature's ecosystems.”
“For the past eight years, the right has been better at working the refs. Now the left is learning how to play the game.”
“When we think about online learning, it's such 'early days.' Bill Gates is a wildly smart insightful guy. Yet, even a guy as smart and insightful as that, 30 years ago can say things like,'Who's every going to need more than 640K of memory?'”
“The lopsided attitudes of college professors pose a serious challenge to learning because students are so susceptible to becoming lopsided sheep.”
“If people are made to feel uncomfortable in the kitchen, they won't go in there. That's why I think children learning to cook can be such a wonderful thing.”
“I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands you need to be able to throw something back.”