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Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up and I'll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select-doctor, lawyer, merchant-chief, and yes, even beggar man and thief, regardless of his talents, penchants, tendencies, abilities, vocations, and race of his ancestors.Collection: Learning
To learn to draw is to draw and draw and draw.Collection: Learning
The value of a prototype is in the education it gives you, not in the code itself.Collection: Learning
When the words are fuzzy, the programmers reflexively retreat to the most precise method of articulation available: source code. Although there is nothing more precise than code, there is also nothing more permanent or resistant to change. So the situation frequently crops up where nomenclature confusion drives programmers to begin coding prematurely, and that code becomes the de facto design, regardless of its appropriateness or correctness.Collection: Learning
Sometimes you think in order to act, sometimes you act in order to think.Collection: Learning
To learn is to change.Collection: Learning
It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment. When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again; the never-satisfied man is so strange if he has completed a structure, then it is not in order to dwell in it peacefully,but in order to begin another. I imagine the world conqueror must feel thus, who, after one kingdom is scarcely conquered, stretches out his arms for others.Collection: Learning
Anybody who has ever "gotten it" by following some so-called method, has gotten it in spite of the method, not because of it.Collection: Learning
A creative idea will be defined simply as one that is both novel and useful or influential in a particular social setting.Collection: Learning
One of the most difficult problems of our age is that leaders, and perhaps academics as well, cannot readily admit that things are out of control and that we do not know what to do. We have too much information, limited cognitive abilities to think in systemic terms and an unwillingness to appear to be in control and to have solutions for our problems. We are afraid that if we admit to our confusion, we will make our followers and students anxious and disillusioned. We know we must learn how to learn, but we are afraid to admit it.Collection: Learning
Incidentally, when we're faced with a "prove or disprove," we're usually better off trying first to disprove with a counterexample, for two reasons: A disproof is potentially easier (we need just one counterexample); and nitpicking arouses our creative juices. Even if the given assertion is true, our search for a counterexample often leads to a proof, as soon as we see why a counterexample is impossible. Besides, it's healthy to be skeptical.Collection: Learning
Learning is the measurement of knowledge before and after.Collection: Learning
The quickest way to unlock your talent is to take the flute out of the box.Collection: Learning
Show me a Professor of Education, especially a Professor of E-learning, who lectures, and I'll show you a hypocrite who doesn't read the research.Collection: Learning
I am forever on the wayCollection: Learning
Earthquakes traveling through the interior of the globe are like so many messengers sent out to explore a new land. The messages are constantly coming and seismologists are fast learning to read them.Collection: Learning
I guess what I'm trying to say is that I'm learning to not want to be someone else, to just be who I am, as is, with nothing extra added on.Collection: Learning
Whatever an education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a conformist; it should furnish you with an original spirit with which to tackle the big challenges. It should allow you to find values which will be your road map through life; it should make you spiritually rich, a person who loves whatever you are doing, wherever you are, whomever you are with; it should teach you what is important, how to live and how to die.Collection: Learning
I've concluded that genius is as common as dirt. We suppress genius because we haven't yet figured out how to manage a population of educated men and women. The solution, I think, is simple and glorious. Let them manage themselves.Collection: Learning
Learning is really about translating knowing what to do into doing what we know.Collection: Learning
Our heads are round so thought can change directionCollection: Learning
Knowledge does not advance practice. Rather practice advances knowledge.Collection: Learning
Unintended consequences get to the heart of why you never really understand an adaptive problem until you have solved it. Problems morph and "solutions" often point to deeper problems. In social life, as in nature, we are walking on a trampoline. Every inroad reconfigures the environment we tread on.Collection: Learning
Discoveries from one community cannot be repackaged and provided to another as a silver bullet, That's a "best practice" rollout and it invariably evokes the immune rejection response.Collection: Learning
Common men should esteem learning as silver, noble men prize it as gold, and princes as jewels.Collection: Learning
The Chinese, whom it might be well to disparage less and imitate more, seem almost the only people among whom learning and merit have the ascendency, and wealth is not the standard of estimation.Collection: Learning
The purpose of learning to employ every minute properly is to unclutter our hours, deliver us of feverish activity and earn us true leisure.Collection: Learning
Learning is a process whereby a human being, or group, or organization, or society comes to understand and embody nature's patterns.Collection: Learning
Study is the scourge of boyhood, the environment of youth, the indulgence of adults and the curative for the aged.Collection: Learning
Science has taught us to lengthen life. Now we must learn to make a longer life worth living. Older people deserve choices that let us live out our days as we wish. We've seen people making such choices all over America, and we realize what we might have known from the start: For most of us, there really is no place like home.Collection: Learning
Let no Body be afrighted, because so many things are to be learnt, when the learning of them will be so pleasant; how profitable I need not tell you.Collection: Learning
Often the desire to appear competent impedes our ability to become competent, because we more anxious to display our knowledge than to learn what we do not know.Collection: Learning
There is no one who cannot derive great help and great benefit from learning; but there are also only a few people who do not receive a great harm from the light and knowledge they have received by learning, unless they use their knowledge in a manner both fit and natural for them.Collection: Learning
Learn continually - there's always "one more thing" to learn!Collection: Learning
Neglect of mathematics work injury to all knowledge, since he who is ignorant of it cannot know the other sciences or things of this world. And what is worst, those who are thus ignorant are unable to perceive their own ignorance, and so do not seek a remedy.Collection: Learning
Socrates asks him the crucial question about education, and that is, If you study with this fellow, what will he make of you?Collection: Learning
Answers given with authority negate the search for truth.Collection: Learning
In the middle years of childhood, it is more important to keep alive and glowing the interest in finding out and to support this interest with skills and techniques related to the process of finding out than to specify any particular piece of subject matter as inviolate.Collection: Learning
How can we help students to understand that the tragedy of life is not death; the tragedy is to die with commitments undefined and convictions undeclared and service unfulfilled?Collection: Learning
Most people have learned to live in the moment. The argument goes that if the past has uncertain effect on the present, there is no need to dwell on the past. And if the present has little effect on the future, present actions need not be weighed for their consequence. Rather, each act is an island in time, to be judged on its own. ... It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity. It is a world in which every word spoken speaks just to that moment, every glance given has only one meaning.Collection: Learning
A charlatan makes obscure what is clear; a thinker makes clear what is obscure.Collection: Learning
We may differ widely in environments, education, learning, knowledge, or lack of it, and in our personalities, our likes and dislikes. But if we set ourselves the task, we'll find a meeting place somehow and somewhere.Collection: Learning
We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.Collection: Learning
Chess teaches you to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good and it trains you to think objectively when you're in troubleCollection: Learning
The only jewel which will not decay is knowledge.Collection: Learning
Science ... must be absorbed in order to inculcate that wonderful humility before the facts of nature that comes from close attention to a textbook, and that unwillingness to learn from Authority that comes from making almost verbatim lecture notes and handing them back to the professor.Collection: Learning
Learning is a process not an event.Collection: Learning
I know paradise has many gates, just as hell does. One has to learn to distinguish between them, or one is lost.Collection: Learning