Henry David Thoreau Quotes

It occurs to her that she should record this flash of insight in her journal - otherwise she is sure to forget, for she is someone who is always learning and forgetting and obliged to learn again.

I started realizing that I wasn't so dumb; rather, most people simply didn't know the answers to the questions that I was interested in-or they didn't care.

Memory and creativity are essential to education, but if you teach memory incorrectly, it is a total waste of time, and it will inhibit learning.

I have a memory, and I can just eliminate mistakes when they come up because I've already made them.

Begin challenging your assumptions. Your assumptions are the windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile or the light won't come in.

Man learns from the cradle to the grave.

I feel like I'm constantly learning. Constantly trying to grow.

A man learns all his life and dies the day he thinks that he has learnt everything.

At least for me, I believe that one learns from one's mistakes. And I made significant mistakes, and I learned from them.

Students often say things that they will one day change their minds about, but also things that change our minds when we think about them.

Because I've always been good at knowing what I thought and not reviewing prematurely and have gotten better at those things over the years, my flips are rarely that significant.

I think everything you do in life is a learning experience.

What is education but a process by which a person begins to learn how to learn?

The more I learn about stuff the more conscious I become of grave gaps in my knowledge.

Every new experience brings its own maturity and a greater clarity of vision.

Learn how to learn, then learn what to learn

One thing in life is for certain, the more profoundly baffled you have been in your life, the more open your mind becomes to new ideas.

The acquisition of knowledge always involves the revelation of ignorance-almost is the revelation of ignorance.

The way of learning is none other than finding the lost mind.

I know nothing, because I know too much, and understand not nearly enough and never will.

Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.

"Thinking about thinking" has to be a principle ingredient of any empowering practice of education.

Someone has said,"Education is going from an unconscious to conscious awareness of one's ignorance."..No one has a corner on wisdom. All the name-dropping in the world does not heighten the significance of our character. If anything, it reduces it. Our acute need is to cultivate a willingness to learn and to remain teachable.

His progress through life was hampered by his tremendous sense of his own ignorance, a disability which affects all too few.

The young mind is pliable and imitates, but in more advanced states grows rigid and must be warmed and softened before it will receive a deep impression.