Productive Learning Quotes

That is the way to learn the most, that when you are doing something with such enjoyment that you don't notice that the time passes.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Don't just learn something from every experience, learn something positive.

He who learns and learns and yet does not know what he knows, is one who plows and plows yet never sows.

What I did by virtue of skipping a lot of classes was get two undergraduate degrees and a master's in four years. It wasn't slacking. There were much more productive ways of learning everything than sitting in lectures.

Unless knowledge is transformed into wisdom, and wisdom is expressed in character; education is a wasteful process.

The best results are achieved by using the right amount of effort in the right place at the right time. And this right amount is usually less than we think we need. In other words, the less unnecessary effort you put into learning, the more successful you'll be... the key to faster learning is to use appropriate effort. Greater effort can exacerbate faulty patterns of action. Doing the wrong thing with more intensity rarely improves the situation. Learning something new often requires us to unlearn something old.

True education is that which proves useful in life and makes you industrious.

One of the favorite things I've learned about Michigan State is that they set up a 'Women's course' in 1896. It sounds like the first gender studies department! But when I looked into it, they taught women home economics, liberal arts, and science. So the women's course was actually a useful degree! It actually teaches something productive!

It can be more productive to help people learn to be 'right' than prove they were 'wrong.'

Can there be any greater reproach than an idle learning? Learn to split wood, at least.

Knowledge acquired too rapidly and without being personally supplemented is never very productive.