I learned the bad guys are not always bad, the good guys are not always good, and to quote Captain Barbossa, the parameters are like rules, mostly guidelines. And that it takes a little bit of bad boy to fight the evil in the world.
--Terri Mitchell
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
SocratesTags: education learning lifelong-learning enlightenment mentorship
I’m not concerned about your comfort zone or readiness for change. I’m concerned about the kids who just entered Kindergarten.
Ian JukesTags: learning change jukes kindergarten
Any fool can know. The point is to understand.
Albert EinsteinTags: wisdom knowledge learning understanding
To conclude, therefore, let no man upon a weak conceit of sobriety or an ill-applied moderation think or maintain that a man can search too far, or be too well studied in the book of God's word, or the book of God's works, divinity or philosophy; but rather let men endeavor an endless progress or proficience in both; only let men beware that they apply both to charity, and not to swelling; to use, and not to ostentation; and again, that they do not unwisely mingle or confound these learnings together.
Francis BaconTags: learning
A shade of sorrow passed over Taliesin's face. 'There are those,' he said gently, 'who must first learn loss, despair, and grief. Of all paths to wisdom, this is the cruelest and longest. Are you one who must follow such a way? This even I cannot know. If you are, take heart nonetheless. Those who reach the end do more than gain wisdom. As rough wool becomes cloth, and crude clay a vessel, so do they change and fashion wisdom for others, and what they give back is greater than what they won.
Lloyd AlexanderTags: wisdom learning grief the-chronicles-of-prydain
Similarly with regard to truth, won't we say that a soul is maimed if it hates a voluntary falsehood, cannot endure to have one in itself, and is greatly angered when it exists in others, but is nonetheless content to accept an involuntary falsehood, isn't angry when it is caught being ignorant, and bears its lack of learning easily, wallowing in it like a pig?
PlatoThe worst thing a kid can say about homework is that it is too hard. The worst thing a kid can say about a game is it's too easy.
Henry JenkinsTags: learning games video-games homework students
It has been a long trip," said Milo, climbing onto the couch where the princesses sat; "but we would have been here much sooner if I hadn't made so many mistakes. I'm afraid it's all my fault."
"You must never feel badly about making mistakes," explained Reason quietly, "as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.
Tags: learning mistakes lessons
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
VoltaireTags: wisdom learning self-knowledge
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