It is from the traditional family that we absorb those universal ideals and principles which are the teaching of Jesus, the bedrock of our religious faith. We are taught the difference between right and wrong, and about the law, just punishment and discipline.
What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You make other mistakes, and when you have made all the mistakes you possibly can without drowning - and some of them many times over - what do you find? That you can swim? Well - life is just the same as learning to swim! Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!
The past is for learning from and letting go. You can't revisit it. It vanishes.
Every human being is born an heir to an inheritance to which he can succeed only in a process of learning.
We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you.
I used to think that prayer should have the first place and teaching the second. I now feel it would be truer to give prayer the first, second, and third places, and teaching the fourth.
I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.
On any longer view, man is only fitfully committed to the rational to thinking, seeing, learning, knowing. Believing is what he\'s really proud of.
Racing is a process of learning where the edge lies.
The soul of man is nourished by learning, as the body is by food.
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a
great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather than the hope of creating the future
dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young.
Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.
Teaching is the greatest act of optimism
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self-direction, and for self-initiated learning.
The praises of others may be of use in teaching us, not what we are, but what we ought to be.
Liberty without learning is always in peril and learning without liberty is always in vain
Whenever you make a mistake or get knocked down by life, don't look back at it too long. Mistakes are life's way of teaching you. Your capacity for occasional blunders is inseparable from your capacity to reach your goals. No one wins them all, and your failures, when they happen, are just part of your growth. Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come.
Don't look for more honor than your learning merits.
You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.
I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.
The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.
Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.
The only kind of learning which significantly influences behavior is self-discovered or self-appropriated learning - truth that has been assimilated in experience.