Learning Quotes

The only faithful tradition is change.

~ Ted Agon

An investment in questions is the only way to increase human and financial capital.

~ Ted Agon

The question is the smallest and greatest unit of discovery.

~ Ted Agon

Our challenge is making a long-term investment in our children in an instant-gratification society.

~ Ted Agon

The question is the original open-source code.

~ Ted Agon

As a question is created, it creates.

~ Ted Agon

A question is a microscope of words.

~ Ted Agon

To forbid mistakes is to forbid learning.

~ Ted Agon

Complexity mumbles. Simplicity speaks

~ Ted Agon

There is no doubt that great teaching and great teachers have a significant impact on students and their long-term association with school and with learning.

~ Carlos Heleno

If we can recognize what makes us unique and how we can positively impact our students, then we can make teaching much more meaningful and learning much more rewarding—essentially, a transformative experience for our students.

~ Carlos Heleno

The perfect life is not worth living. There would be nothing to look forward to. The imperfect life is perfect.

~ Ted Agon

The question is a curious collection of words.

~ Ted Agon

Creativity is impossible unless existing rules are broken. Let's break some.

~ Ted Agon

Eyes see lies that ears can't hear

~ Ted Agon

Candy can coax kids. Cooked cabbage can't.

~ Ted Agon

Any learning process that is not entirely invested in questions is under funded.

~ Ted Agon

Creativity rudely trespasses and tramples on accepted grounds.

~ Ted Agon

The question is thee transformable power.

~ Ted Agon

Our challenge is more of ignorance than stupidity. Having informed decisions most of us will make reasonable decisions.

~ Ted Agon

Questions are the natural agents of curiosity. To limit question is unnatural, against nature.

~ Ted Agon

We can't force a child to learn but we can feed his hunger.

~ Ted Agon

The advantage in today's society is that there is so much information about everything. It means that you don't have to repeat all the mistakes yourself but can learn by seeing how other people have done.

~ Peter Jumrukovski

When the Master entered the great temple he asked about everything. Someone said, ‘Who will say that this son of the man of Zou knows about ritual? When he enters the temple, he asks about everything’. The Master heard of it and said, ‘This is the ritual’.

~ Confucius

Knowing it does not compare with loving it, loving it does not compare with delighting in it.

~ Confucius

If I raise one corner for someone and he cannot come back with the other three, I do not go on.

~ Confucius

It's written that learning is more precious than rubies, more lasting than gold. Rubies may be lost and gold stolen, but that which you learn is yours forever.

~ Erica Silverman

Learning has been liberated from the despotism of the few and is now available to the mass public for one's own evolution. Yet many of us continue to find solace in illusions, in conformity to systematical oppression, in distractions that keep us mentally, socially and often physically retarded.

~ D. Allen Miller

If we can recognize what makes us unique, and how we can positively impact our students, then we can make teaching much more meaningful and learning much more rewarding—essentially, a transformative experience for our students.

~ Carlos Heleno

The process of learning requires not only hearing and applying but also forgetting and then remembering again.

~ John Gray

You can only learn through failure, and what ye learn is the importance ay preparation.

~ Irvine Welsh

Everything that occurs to us in life is a resource, an experience that we can learn from and grow from.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Knowledge is like the sky - limitless. It depends on you whether you want to learn how to acquire wings and fly or get on a plane and soar. The faster you rise to pick up knowledge, the quicker your success!!

~ Uma Shanker

To learn six subjects without remembering how they were learnt does nothing to ease the approach to a seventh, to have learnt and remembered the art of learning makes the approach to every subject an open door.

~ Dorothy L. Sayers

He went to work in this preparatory lesson, not unlike Morgiana in the Forty Thieves: looking into all the vessels ranged before him, one after another, to see what they contained. Say, good M’Choakumchild. When from thy boiling store, thou shalt fill each jar brim full by-and-by, dost thou think that thou wilt always kill outright the robber Fancy lurking within—or sometimes only maim him and distort him!

~ Charles Dickens

Difficulties were fires. If you kept them in check, you could learn from them. You simply had to know how to fan them the right way.

~ Jinat Rehana Begum

Our life evokes our character. You find out more about yourself as you go on. That’s why it’s good to be able to put yourself in situations that will evoke your higher nature rather than your lower.

~ Joseph Campbell

I find learning to be the most valuable of all the treasures in the world. It's priceless.

~ Jody Hedlund

You behold him at the age of four-and-twenty stuffed with learning enough to produce an intellectual indigestion in an ordinary mind.

~ Rafael Sabatini

Prejudice is learned. What will you teach others through your actions and words?

~ Dashanne Stokes