#earning

Yet this book is to prove that no matter how you travel, how 'successful' your tour, or foreshortened, you always learn something and learn to change your thoughts. ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#change #learning #travel #change

[W]e are not merely tempered and schooled by failure but compelled, in however subtle a fashion, to become something other than we were. ↗

— Anthony Lane

#failure #learning #change

What sets one Southern town apart from another, or from a Northern town or hamlet, or city high-rise? The answer must be the experience shared between the unknowing majority (it) and the knowing minority (you). All of childhood's unanswered questions must finally be passed back to the town and answered there. Heroes and bogey men, values and dislikes, are first encountered and labeled in that early environment. In later years they change faces, places and maybe races, tactics, intensities and goals, but beneath those penetrable masks they wear forever the stocking-capped faces of childhood. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#i-know-why-the-caged-bird-sings #innocence #learning #maya-angelou #change

Real education happens only by failing, changing, challenging, and adjusting. All of those gerunds apply to teachers as well as students. No person is an “educator,” because education is not something one person does to another. Education is an imprecise process, a dance, and a collaborative experience. ↗

— Siva Vaidhyanathan

#learning #teaching #change

If I went back to college again, I'd concentrate on two areas learning to write and to speak before an audience. Nothing in life is more important than the ability to communicate effectively. ↗

— Gerald R. Ford

#learning #speaking #writing #communication

There's always failure. And there's always disappointment. And there's always loss. But the secret is learning from the loss, and realizing that none of those holes are vacuums. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

#disappointment #failure #holes #learning #loss

Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning. ↗

— King Solomon

#down #first #first step #fools #god

I grow old learning something new every day. ↗

— Solon

#every #every day #grow #i #learning

Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces. ↗

— Solon

#learning #people #rich #rich people #sheep

We shall listen, not lecture; learn, not threaten. We will enhance our safety by earning the respect of others and showing respect for them. In short, our foreign policy will rest on the traditional American values of restraint and empathy, not on military might. ↗

— Theodore C. Sorensen

#american values #earning #empathy #enhance #foreign