Learning & Education: Learning Quotes

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Anthony Burgess, Novelist

"Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual"

Arthur Koestler, Novelist

"Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold"

Joseph Chilton Pearce, Writer

"In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking"

Ted Nelson, Author

"The people that really were important, that mattered, had a great foundation. I had no training. I had to learn while doing, and it was really difficult"

Tab Hunter, Actor

"If somebody comes to a neighborhood coffee hour, or goes to a discussion group, and they have a discussion, I do think that people really walk away with a real understanding of the issues"

Mike Lowry, Politician

"One of the most important days of my life was when I learned to ride a bicycle"

Michael Palin, Comedian

"Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness"

Katherine Mansfield, Author

"If you stop and think about our history, one of the reasons we had an American century and there is an American dream was because at key points in our history we made very bold decisions about making sure that there was very broad, universal access to quality education"

Ken Mehlman, Politician

"I have a great interest in a number of things, perhaps too many. I admire people who seem to concentrate on only one fixed discipline to the exclusion of almost everything else"

Tom Glazer, Musician

"The most important thing I learned in school was how to touch type"

Joichi Ito, Businessman

"We Americans have the great gifts of freedom and democracy, but it has been our education system that has fulfilled the promise of democracy"

James E. Rogers, Educator

"Higher education is not growing fast enough to meet the needs of Nevada"

James E. Rogers, Educator

"In my home State of Louisiana, several institutions of higher education have been impacted by both Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, literally dozens across the entire State"

Bobby Jindal, Politician

"Like my colleagues, I did about 10 to 15 town hall meetings on this issue; and what I found is people came with a sincere interest to learn, a sincere interest to cut through the rhetoric and understand how this Medicare bill impacts them in their daily lives"

Chris Chocola, Politician

"Every child should have the opportunity to receive a quality education"

Bill Frist, Politician

"Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence"

Alistair Cooke, Journalist

"The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning"

George F. Kennan, Historian

"The intellectual evolution of the race consists in an increase in the number, delicacy, complexity, permanence and speed of formation of such associations"

Edward Thorndike, Psychologist

"So the animal finally performs in that situation only the fitting act"

Edward Thorndike, Psychologist

"Through first-class education, a generation marches down the long uncertain road of the future with confidence"

Wynton Marsalis, Musician

"I found college useful for a lot of other reasons. It exposed me to a great many influences I wouldn't otherwise have encountered, and gave me a lot of time with some very intelligent people whose thoughts are still with me"

Walter Jon Williams, Writer

"So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened"

Ted Nelson, Author

"We have a large underclass in Britain, and a fairly low standard of education. Our best universities are extremely good, but a very significant proportion of the British population that comes out of compulsory schooling with very low standards of education"

Nigel Short, Celebrity

"I don't know how to drive a car"

Javier Bardem, Actor

"And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others"

Wole Soyinka, Dramatist

"Too rigid specialization is almost as bad for a historian's mind, and for his ultimate reputation, as too early an indulgence in broad generalization and synthesis"

Samuel E. Morison, Historian

"It's unbelievable how many things I've learned from Merlin Olsen"

Jack Youngblood, Athlete

"I've never stopped learning"

Mick Taylor, Musician

"When, instead of merely associating some act with some situation in the animal way, we think the situation out, we have a set of particular feelings of its elements"

Edward Thorndike, Psychologist

"Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature"

Edward Thorndike, Psychologist

"It is nice to be around people who think differently than you. They challenge your ideas and keep you from being complacent"

Tucker Carlson, Journalist

"College was a great time. I partied there, but I also learned how to act"

Lusia Strus, Actress

"I come from Montana, and in eastern Montana we have a lot of dirt between light bulbs. It is expensive trying to bring the new technologies to smaller schools to upgrade their technologies to take advantage of distance learning"

Conrad Burns, Politician

"Let all the time you can get be spent in trying to learn to read"

Jupiter Hammon, Poet

"These days there's so much technology and ways you can learn. There are videos and CD ROMs"

Mick Taylor, Musician

"Do theater. Because you'll develop a craft that you'll always have. It'll give you a chance to really learn how to act and you won't go into the world with a few measly tricks that will only carry you so far"

Mark Ruffalo, Actor

"I was also a big Woody Allen fan. When I got into college I listened to Lenny Bruce but it's taken me years to put him into context historically and really get what he did"

Marc Maron, Entertainer

"I went to a Catholic public school, St Helens, and learned English by watching Bugs Bunny cartoons"

Nick Mancuso, Actor

"A lot of actors said they hated the studio system, but I loved it. It was like a college; it was a great place to learn"

Richard Widmark, Actor

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