As a result of his experiments he concluded that imitation was a real evil that had to be broken before real rhetoric teaching could begin. This imitation seemed to be an external compulsion. Little children didn’t have it. It seemed to come later on, possibly as a result of school itself.
That sounded right, and the more he thought about it the more right it sounded. Schools teach you to imitate. If you don’t imitate what the teacher wants you get a bad grade. Here, in college, it was more sophisticated, of course; you were supposed to imitate the teacher in such a way as to convince the teacher you were not imitating, but taking the essence of the instruction and going ahead with it on your own. That got you A’s. Originality on the other hand could get you anything – from A to F. The whole grading system cautioned against it.
Stichwörter: education learning school imitation rhetoric grades
The key to pursuing excellence is to embrace an organic, long-term learning process, and not to live in a shell of static, safe mediocrity. Usually, growth comes at the expense of previous comfort or safety.
Josh WaitzkinStichwörter: learning personal-growth
Could mankind declare it was truly wise? Did man know everything on earth, or would he ever? Certainly not!
E.A. BucchianeriStichwörter: wisdom truth knowledge learning stupidity humility mankind philosophical limitations gadfly stupidity-of-man
A big secret to life is when you learn that learning is just as entertaining as entertainment, but with long term benefits.
Orrin WoodwardStichwörter: life learning entertainment
Before going back to college, i knew i didn't want to be an intellectual, spending my life in books and libraries without knowing what the hell is going on in the streets. Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory. The two have to go together.
Assata ShakurStichwörter: education learning practice theory revolutionary
The effort of learning. It's the same when you approach any new skill or technique, from a dance step to driving a car. The effort of learning stops you, at first, from doing it well.
Antony SherStichwörter: learning
I should learn to run, to wrestle, to swim, to ride horses, to row, to drive a car, to fire a rifle. I should fill my soul with flesh. I should fill my flesh with soul. In fact, I should reconcile at last within me the two internal antagonists.
Nikos KazantzakisIf what we learn is no more than what we expect to learn, then we have learned nothing at all.
John H. LienhardStichwörter: learning
...to her all books were the same and, as with her subjects, she felt a duty to approach them without prejudice...Lauren Bacall, Winifred Holtby, Sylvia Plath - who were they? Only be reading could she find out.
Alan BennettStichwörter: reading books equality knowledge learning prejudice information celebrities biographies
I have learned to read the papers calmly and not to hate the fools I read about.
Edmund WilsonStichwörter: learning news fools critics papers
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