#earning

After the United States entered the war, I joined the Naval Reserve and spent ninety days in a Columbia University dormitory learning to be a naval officer. ↗

— James Tobin

#columbia #columbia university #days #entered #i

'No Child Left Behind' requires states and school districts to ensure that all students are learning and are reaching their highest potential. Special education students should not be left out of these accountability mechanisms. ↗

— Dianne Feinstein

#behind #child #districts #education #ensure

I think kids slowly begin to realize that what they're learning relates to other things they know. Then learning starts to get more and more exciting. ↗

— Norton Juster

#exciting #get #i #i think #kids

. . . I feel we don’t really need scriptures. The entire life is an open book, a scripture. Read it. Learn while digging a pit or chopping some wood or cooking some food. If you can’t learn from your daily activities, how are you going to understand the scriptures? (233) ↗

— Swami Satchidananda

#living #mindfulness #scriptures #food

Producing is just a big learning experience. ↗

— Ashley Tisdale

#experience #just #learning #producing

A wise man will hear, and will increase in learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels. ↗

— Anonymous

#learning #life #wisdom #inspirational

Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature. ↗

— Edward Thorndike

#accustomed #beings #controlling #events #having

Inequality makes everyone unhappy, the poor most of all, and that is well within the remit of the state. More money gives less extra happiness the richer we get, yet we are addicted to earning and spending more every year. ↗

— Polly Toynbee

#earning #every #everyone #extra #get

Only the elites despise earning money. ↗

— Newt Gingrich

#earning #elites #money #only

Through learning we re-create ourselves. Through learning we become able to do something we never were able to do. Through learning we reperceive the world and our relationship to it. Through learning we extend our capacity to create, to be part of the generative process of life ↗

— Peter M. Senge

#knowledge #learning #life #inspirational