Learning Effort Quotes

All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.

The effort of learning. It's the same when you approach any new skill or technique, from a dance step to driving a car. The effort of learning stops you, at first, from doing it well.

If you want learning, you must work for it.

With concerted effort, I can follow written instructions, but don't ask me to simply grasp how to operate a smartphone.

Effective education may also require co-opting old faculties to deal with new demands. . . Because much of the content of education is not cognitively natural, the process of mastering it may not always be easy and pleasant, notwithstanding the mantra that learning is fun.

It is no secret that the fruits of language study are in no sort of relation to the labour spent on teaching and learning them.

I don't have much knowledge about Indian culture, but I try to keep a tab of what's happening down here.

There aren't many such enthusiasts born. The average person is not especially curious about the world. He is alive, and being somehow obliged to deal with this condition, feels the less effort it requires, the better. Whereas learning about the world is labor, and a great all-consuming one at that. Most people develop quite antithetical talents, in fact - to look without seeing, to listen without hearing, mainly to preserve onself within oneself.