#learning

It took me 42 years to write this song, and 5 minutes to sing it." [On The Heart of the Matter, during the Eagles' Hell Freezes Over tour.] ↗

— Don Henley

#learning #lessons #letting-go #life #forgiveness

The social system is taking on a form in which finding out what you want to do is less and less of an option because your life is too structured, organised, controlled and disciplined. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#learning #work #freedom

An education is truly "fitted for freedom" only if it is such as to produce free citiens, citizen who are free not because of wealth or birth, they can call their minds their own. Male or female, they have looked nto themselves and developed the ability to separate habit and convention from what they can defend by arhument. Theyhave ownership of their own thought and speech, and this imparts to them a dignity that is far beyond the outer dignity of class and rank. - Martha Nussbaum, Cultivating Humanity. In e-Portfolios for Lifelong Learning, 2010. ↗

— by Darren Cambridge

#freedom #learning #education

I heard this story once," she said, "where this bloke got locked up for years and years and he learned amazin' stuff about the universe and everythin' from another prisoner who was incredibly clever, and then he escaped and got his revenge." "What incredibly clever stuff do you know about the universe, Gytha Ogg?" said Granny. "Bugger all," said Granny cheerfully. "Then we'd better bloody well escape right now. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#learning #prison #humor

Failure is just another way to learn how to do something right. ↗

— Marian Wright Edelman

#faith #hope #inspirational #learning #faith

Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst...They are for nothing but to inspire. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#inspire #learning #inspirational

Learning should take place when it is needed, when the learner is interested, not according to some arbitrary, fixed schedule ↗

— Donald A. Norman

#design

One learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#learning #education

So long as we learn it doesn’t matter who teaches us, does it? ↗

— E.R. Braithwaite

#learning #teaching #education

Education is not confined to books, and the finest characters often graduate from no college, but make experience their master, and life their book. [Some care] only for the mental culture, and [are] in danger of over-studying, under the delusion . . . that learning must be had at all costs, forgetting that health and real wisdom are better. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#learning #education