You have to convince the adults that if a child is to learn his culture, he or she will have to see his mother and father reading about it, and explaining it to him. Then it gets a legitimacy it otherwise would never have. Until then, his learning is limited.
Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities-that's training or instruction-but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed.
Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you've got something to share.
Once in awhile you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look it right
In the end, the secret to learning is so simple: Think only about whatever you love. Follow it, do it, dream about it. . . and it will hit you: learning was there all the time, happening by itself.
Learning a language represents training in the delusions of that language.
In most cases learning something essential in life requires physical pain.
Advise for anybody - enjoy what you are doing, enjoy the process of learning and don't be impatient.
If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Laws for the liberal education of youth, especially of the lower class of people, are so extremely wise and useful, that, to a humane and generous mind, no expense for this purpose would be thought extravagant.
Preparation through education is less costly than learning through tragedy.
Tell us again, for we forget, that work done without love is stillborn, mindless, and lost in the very hour of its deliverance.
That is the problem with age and wisdom—it merely shows you how helpless you are. The wiser you become, the more you learn to keep your mouth shut, until eventually the grave silences you forever.
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
If you are not learning, you are not living.
The more senses recruited at the moment of learning, the more likely you are to recall it later.
Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.
I never let prejudice stop me from what I wanted to do in this life.
My illusions didn't have anything to do with being a fine actress. I knew how third rate I was. I could actually feel my lack of talent, as if it were cheap clothes I was wearing inside. But, my God, how I wanted to learn, to change, to improve!
Why don't we teach our children in school what they are? We should say to them, 'You are unique. . . you have the capacity for anything. You are a marvel'.