learning Quotes

After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.

It's a mistake to think that once you're done with school you need never learn anything new.

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

The Gates Foundation has learned that two questions can predict how much kids learn: 'Does your teacher use class time well?' and, 'When you're confused, does your teacher help you get straightened out?'

Teaching's hard! You need different skills: positive reinforcement, keeping students from getting bored, commanding their attention in a certain way.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

The best teacher is very interactive.

Americans want students to get the best education possible. We want schools to prepare children to become good citizens and members of a prosperous American economy.

I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in.

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.