#learning

"Proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you have always known."

"Begin to read, write and think."

"Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and pass on values from on generation to the next. Books save lives."

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

"There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught."

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

"Many people feel so pressured by the expectations of others that it causes them to be frustrated, miserable and confused about what they should do. But there is a way to live a simple, joy-filled, peaceful life, and the key is learning how to be led by the Holy Spirit, not the traditions or expectations of man."

"Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance."

"I would rather my descendants have greater abilities and a greater knowledge of the love of Christ than I do, much like standing on one's shoulders in order to get a clearer view of the valley."

"Stop trying to be less of who you are. Let this time in your life cut you open and drain all of the things that are holding you back."

"I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught."

"I just want your voice aimed at me again. I want to absorb the direction of your eyes…"

"You cannot open a book without learning something."

"We can get too easily bogged down in the academic part of homeschooling, a relatively minor part of the whole, which is to raise competent, caring, literate, happy people."

"I’ve grown up defined by this desperate, undeniable, ‘can’t breathe’ kind of space inside of myself and I’m afraid that the diagnosis is fatal."

"It is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic tree -- make sure you understand the fundamental principles, ie the trunk and big branches, before you get into the leaves/details or there is nothing for them to hang on to."

"My life changed the day I moved beyond just wishing for things and I started earning them. That is the day I learned that we don't get what we wish for, we get what we work for."

"I don’t think people realise how vital libraries are or what a colossal danger it would be if we were to lose any more. Having had a truncated school life myself, all of my education from the age of 17 has been self-taught. I wouldn’t be the person I am today if it wasn’t for the opportunities the library gave me."

"Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age."

"Genius is an exceedingly common human quality, probably natural to most of us."