Gene Weingarten Quotes

Education is the art of making man ethical.

I have over and over again explained that the purpose of the Boy Scout and Girl Guide Movement is to build men and women as citizens endowed with the three H's namely, Health, Happiness and Helpfulness. The man or woman who succeeds in developing these three attributes has secured the main steps to success this Life.

There’s more time spent on teaching kids about recycling than on character development in the American schools.

I really, truly believe in learning from other people's mistakes.

There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.

I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences... I'm human, not perfect, like anybody else.

I always say the minute I stop making mistakes is the minute I stop learning and I've definitely learned a lot.

Our learning ought to be our lives' amendment, and the fruits of our private study ought to appear in our public behavior.

Making distinctions is part of learning. So is making mistakes.

I would counsel people to go to college, because it's one of the best times in your life in terms of who you meet and develop a broad set of intellectual skills.

Heart and head are the constituent parts of character; temperament has almost nothing to do with it, and, therefore, character is dependent upon education, and is susceptible of being corrected and improved.

It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers - they help us to learn.

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

As humans, we're going to make mistakes. It's what makes us human, and most of the time, the most effective way of learning is from a mistake.

Making a wrong decision is understandable. Refusing to search continually for learning is not.

Virtue comes by nature, learning, and practice, and thanks to virtue, all of the aforesaid may deserve approval.

Well, I think that part of being young is not exactly knowing why you do some of the things that you do. And it's by exploring your life or experimenting or making mistakes and learning from them hopefully that you start to forge an identity.

You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word.

Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.

Of course I make mistakes. I'm human. If I didn't make mistakes, I'd never learn. You can only go forward by making mistakes.

If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don't worry about it, that's the way we learn.

Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.

Where I Was Wrong

History informs us of past mistakes from which we can learn without repeating them.