Quotes Tagged "education"

You can homeschool whether you loved school, hated school, or were somewhere in the middle.

Read books by people you disagree with. Listen to others who think differently from you. Watch programming you wouldn't normally watch. Expand your mind and views of the world. As right as you think you are about your own beliefs and experiences, others feel the same way about their own. You'll learn more than you ever imagined if you see the world through beliefs rather than right and wrong.

I knew from my own life experience that when someone shows genuine interest in your learning and development, even if only for ten minutes in a busy day, it matters. It matters especially for women, for minorities, for anyone society is quick to overlook.

Learning, thinking, and writing should not be about accumulating knowledge, but about becoming a different person with a different way of thinking. This is done by questioning one’s own thinking routines in light of new experiences and facts.

The real enemy of independent thinking is not an external authority, but our own inertia. The ability to generate new ideas has more to do with breaking with old habits of thinking than with coming up with as many ideas as possible.

Nejde o to, že učíme matematiku, protože by matematika měla být učena, ale protože je dítě díky matematice zvláštním způsobem rozvíjeno ve své duši.

The most important advantage of writing is that it helps us confront ourselves when we do not understand something as well as we would like to believe.

One who learns to justify forgets to learn.

When I speak to teachers, it’s always remarkable to me how unaware they are of the research literature—especially young teachers or student teachers.” Yet when it comes to homework, most teachers are true believers.

Read the books which they [the ancients] have written, read those which you prefer, they will speak to you and you will speak to them” - St Bernardino of Siena (d. 1444)

We can teach from our experience, but we cannot teach experience.

It is no use deciding what people ought to learn without at the same time considering how it may be made interesting — without, in fact, an unremitting study of human psychology.

Barack wasn't a real black man, like them--someone who spoke like that, looked like that, and read that many books could never be. What bothered me most was that Barack exemplified everything parents on the South Side often said they wanted for their kids.

If a person works smart instead of executing unnecessary effort with their tasks, he or she can achieve the greatest success in life.

If a person works smart instead of executing unnecessary effort with his or her tasks, he or she can achieve the greatest success in life.

Education is not the acquisition of degrees. It is the broadening of one's mind. It is the process of undertaking and imparting true knowledge. It is the awakening of one's consciousness towards the Universe withing us and the Universe around us.

Never use a pen for copying and pasting. Always use your pen for creativity. This aspect of composition can prove your unique understanding of a given writing task.

Well, the first rule is that you can’t really know anything if you just remember isolated facts and try to bang ‘em back. If the facts don’t hang together on a latticework of theory, you don’t have them in a usable form. You’ve got to have mental models in your head. And you’ve got to array your experience, both vicarious and direct, on this latticework of models.

A positive attitude is often way more important than education, money, and experience.

I find that it is when an opinion is least wanted, that it is most needed.