#learning

[The public school system is] usually a twelve year sentence of mind control. Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism and compromise, destroying the exercise of intellectual inquiry, twisting it instead into meek subservience to authority. ↗

— Walter Karp

#homeschool #learning #school #education

When I left Bradford and got a phone call from Dave Parnaby asking 'did I want to come back in?', I was delighted to accept. The whole buzz at the club at the moment is great for someone like me who is still learning and wanting to hopefully go into management in my own right at some point. ↗

— Colin Cooper

#asking #back #buzz #call #club

I'm developing a record company. I'm learning how to supervise music on a film. ↗

— Carson Daly

#developing #film #how #i #learning

Everybody's a work in progress. I'm a work in progress. I mean, I've never arrived... I'm still learning all the time. ↗

— Renee Fleming

#everybody #i #learning #mean #never

Being steeped in the process of learning and exploring keeps me from becoming too nervous. Partly it's about not getting bored. ↗

— Renee Fleming

#becoming #being #bored #exploring #getting

Learning operatic roles is ongoing, and I find that I can learn on the train or subway, during a manicure, getting my hair done, and even while driving if I only look at the score at red lights. ↗

— Renee Fleming

#driving #during #even #find #getting

There's no mystery to it. Nothing more complicated than learning lines and putting on a costume. ↗

— Morgan Freeman

#costume #learning #lines #more #mystery

It's like learning a language; you can't speak a language fluently until you find out who you are in that language, and that has as much to do with your body as it does with vocabulary and grammar. ↗

— Fred Frith

#does #find #fluently #grammar #language

Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning. ↗

— Frederick William Faber

#eloquence #kindness #learning #more #sinners

Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity. ↗

— Jean Henri Fabre

#absolutely #am #answer #appearance #confess