#learning

"Education is not limited to any age. You can begin to learn."

"I feel a resurgence of my 6-year-old self… that little warrior, goddess of a girl reminding me of who I was when I was little, before the world got its hands on me."

"Hollowness: that I understand. I'm starting to believe that there isn't anything you can do to fix it. That's what I've taken from the therapy sessions: the holes in your life are permanent. You have to grow around them, like tree roots around concrete; you mold yourself through the gaps"

"Life is a balanced system of learning and evolution. Whether pleasure or pain; every situation in your life serves a purpose. It is up to us to recognize what that purpose could be."

"I am my own biggest critic. Before anyone else has criticized me, I have already criticized myself. But for the rest of my life, I am going to be with me and I don't want to spend my life with someone who is always critical. So I am going to stop being my own critic. It's high time that I accept all the great things about me."

"A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning."

"A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning."

"No civilization, including Plato's, has ever been destroyed because its citizens learned too much."

"If we study learning as a data science, we can reverse engineer the human brain and tailor learning techniques to maximize the chances of student success. This is the biggest revolution that could happen in education, turning it into a data-driven science, and not such a medieval set of rumors professors tend to carry on."

"I'm unpredictable, I never know where I'm going until I get there, I'm so random, I'm always growing, learning, changing, I'm never the same person twice. But one thing you can be sure of about me; is I will always do exactly what I want to do."

"You will not reap the fruit of individuality in your children if you clone their education."

"It's a big theme in my life, learning about myself and being a better person. I'm a work in progress; I have revelations every day."

"He never reckoned much to schooling and that. He said you could learn most what was worth knowing from keeping your eyes and ears peeled. Best way of learning, he always said, was doing."

"Old words are reborn with new faces."

"Why don't we want our children to learn to do mathematics? Is it that we don't trust them, that we think it's too hard? We seem to feel that they are capable of making arguments and coming to their own conclusions about Napoleon. Why not about triangles?"

"Everything I’ve learned about handshakes is from hands-on experience. Due to hygiene, I only network with rubber glove manufacturers."

"I am not a teacher, but an awakener."

"You need to spend time crawling alone through shadows to truly appreciate what it is to stand in the sun."

"Do you train for passing tests or do you train for creative inquiry?"

"Learning to appreciate those things that aren't related to success has proved the biggest lesson."