Dynamic Learning Quotes

Books are all right, but dead men's brains are no good unless you mix a live one's with them.

When knowledge becomes rigid, it stops living.

Science is you! It's your head, it's your dog, it's your iPhone - it's the world. How do you see that as boring? If it's boring, it's because you're learning it from a textbook.

If we set our priority "the removal of all risk", we'll soon have sterile, stagnant, and unstimulating learning environments.

I never teach the same course twice.

Learning is not the accumulation of knowledge. Learning is movement from moment to moment.

There are no limits to what I would do to make my classes exciting, interesting, unpredictable.

The success of corporate mentorship programs developed by some of the Great Teams in business demonstrates how powerful this concept can be and what a difference it can make. As General Electric has shown, when a corporate culture includes mentorship, the end result is a dynamic learning environment with leaders constantly shaping leaders.

The key to pursuing excellence is to embrace an organic, long-term learning process, and not to live in a shell of static, safe mediocrity. Usually, growth comes at the expense of previous comfort or safety.

A good aim surveys the present state of experience of pupils, and forming a tentative plan of treatment, keeps the plan constantly in view and yet modifies it as conditions develop. The aim, in short, is experimental, and hence constantly growing as it is tested in action.