learning Quotes

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?'

No matter what engineering field you're in, you learn the same basic science and mathematics. And then maybe you learn a little bit about how to apply it.

Lectures should go from being like the family singing around the piano to high-quality concerts.

From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books. Pleased with the 'Pilgrim's Progress,' my first collection was of John Bunyan's works in separate little volumes.

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.