#learnin

You go to a great school not so much for knowledge as for arts and habits; for the habit of attention, for the art of expression, for the art of assuming, at a moment’s notice, a new intellectual position, for the art of entering quickly into another person’s thoughts, for the habit of submitting to censure and refutation, for the art of indicating assent or dissent in graduated terms… And above all, you go to a great school for self-knowledge. ↗

— William Cory

#learning #school #art

There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#homeschool #homeschooling #learning #education

We do not learn from experience...we learn from reflecting on experience. ↗

— John Dewey

#learning-from-mistakes #life #experience

We learn from failure, not from success! ↗

— Bram Stoker

#experience #learning #mistakes #records #wisdom

Everyone knew there were wolves in the mountains, but they seldom came near the village-the modern wolves were the offspring of ancestors that had survived because they had learned that human meat had sharp edges. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#learning #weaponry #wolves #equality

...to her all books were the same and, as with her subjects, she felt a duty to approach them without prejudice...Lauren Bacall, Winifred Holtby, Sylvia Plath - who were they? Only be reading could she find out. ↗

— Alan Bennett

#books #celebrities #equality #information #knowledge

All starting points are equally valid. ↗

— Patricia Ryan Madson

#equality

The key to pursuing excellence is to embrace an organic, long-term learning process, and not to live in a shell of static, safe mediocrity. Usually, growth comes at the expense of previous comfort or safety. ↗

— Josh Waitzkin

#personal-growth #art

No art or learning is to be pursued halfheartedly...and any art worth learning will certainly reward more or less generously the effort made to study it. ↗

— Murasaki Shikibu

#effort #learning #rewards #art

He landed on cheap shot, but I knocked him out of the tournament. ↗

— Josh Waitzkin

#learning #martial-arts #tai-chi-chuan #tournament #art