Bob Greene Quotes

Learn avidly. Question repeatedly what you have learned. Analyze it carefully. Then put what you have learned into practice intelligently.

Kids need time for problem solving, critical thinking, applying knowledge through project-based instruction, working in teams, falling down and getting right back up to figure out what they didn't understand and why.

Learning locked in mildewed books is of little use to anyone and therefore of no value unless it can be used.

A man has only so much knowledge as he puts to work.

Learning is defined as a change in behavior. You haven't learned a thing until you take action and use it.

Don't be the ammunition wagon, be the rifle... knowledge exists primarily for use.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Efforts to develop critical thinking falter in practice because too many professors still lecture to passive audiences instead of challenging students to apply what they have learned to new questions.

I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture.

History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff well, it might as well be dead.

What you know is what you know, both culturally and practically, and you use it to the greatest effect you can.

Today knowledge is free. It's like air, it's like water... There's no competitive advantage to knowing more than the person next to you. The world doesn't care what you know. What the world cares about is what you can do with what you know.

He, who learns and makes no use of his learning, is a beast of burden, with a load of books.

Learning cannot be disassociated from action.

Power grows out of Organized Knowledge, but mind you, it grows out of it, through Application and Use.

He that has sense knows that learning is not knowledge, but rather the art of using it.

Too many scholars think of research as purely a cerebral pursuit. If we do nothing with the knowledge we gain, then we have wasted our study. Books can store information better than we can--what we we do that books cannot is interpret. So if one is not going to draw conclusions, then one might as well just leave the information in the texts.

Books are totally useless unless you take their advice. If you just keep reading them, thinking "that's so insightful! that changes everything," but never actually doing anything different, then pretty quickly the feeling will wear off and you'll start searching for another book to fill the void.

With younger children the greatest reward is to be able to pass on to a new stage in each subject. It is a punishment to a young child not to be allowed to use the apparatus but to sit still and do nothing.

Knowledge rooted in experience shapes what we value and as a consequence how we know what we know as well as how we use what we know.

Any piece of knowledge I acquire today has a value at this moment exactly proportional to my skill to deal with it. Tomorrow, when I know more, I recall that piece of knowledge and use it better.

When the interval between the intellectual classes and the practical classes is too great, the former will possess no influence, the latter will reap no benefit.

I like to make use of what I know

In general I ask for books that make use of learning, not those that build it up.

We tend to use knowledge as therapy.