You either succeed, or you have a learning experience.
The object of a liberal training is not learning, but discipline and the enlightenment of the mind. The educated man is to be discovered by his point of view, by the temper of his mind, by hit attitude towards life and his fair way of thinking. He can see, he can discriminate, he can combine ideas and perceieve whither they lead; he has insight and comprehension. His mind is a pracised instrument of appreciation. He is more apt to contribute light than heat to a discussion, and will oftener than another show the power of uniting the elements of a difficult subject in a whole view; he has the knowledge of the world which no one can have who knows only his own generation or only his own task.
What we should seek to impart in our colleges, therefore, is not so much learning itself as the spirit of learning. You can impart that to young men; and you can impart it to them in the three or four years at your disposal. It consists in the power to distinguish good reasoning from bad, in the power to digest and interpret evidence, in a habit of catholic observation and a preference for the non-partisan point of view, in an addiction to clear and logical prcesses of thought and yet and instinctive desire to interpret rather than to stick in the letter of the reasoning, in a taste for knowledge and a deep respect for the integrity of the human mind. It is citizenship of the world of knowledge, but not ownership of it.
What we should seek to impart in our colleges, therefore, is not so much learning itself as the spirit of learning. You can impart that to young men; and you can impart it to them in the three or four years at your disposal. It consists in the power to distinguish good reasoning from bad, in the power to digest and interpret evidence, in a habit of catholic observation and a preference for the non-partisan point of view, in an addiction to clear and logical prcesses of thought and yet and instinctive desire to interpret rather than to stick in the letter of the reasoning, in a taste for knowledge and a deep respect for the integrity of the human mind. It is citizenship of the world of knowledge, but not ownership of it.
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All truth is one. In this light may science and religion endeavor here for the
steady evolution of mankind. From darkness to light, from narrowness to
broad-mindedness, from prejudice to tolerance, it is the voice of life, which
calls us to come and learn.
steady evolution of mankind. From darkness to light, from narrowness to
broad-mindedness, from prejudice to tolerance, it is the voice of life, which
calls us to come and learn.
As a specialist in learning disabilities, I have found that the most dangerous disability is […] fear. Fear shifts us into survival mode and thus prevents fluid learning and nuanced understanding. Certainly, if a real tiger is about to attack you, survival is the mode you want to be in. But if you’re trying to deal intelligently with a subtle task, survival mode is highly unpleasant and counterproductive.
It [leaders talking about the mistakes they’ve made in their lives] empowers the followers and helps them understand how the leaders got where they are. It reinforces that thing we all know but find so hard to live, that if you don’t make mistakes, you’re not taking enough chances, not pushing yourself. It creates a culture of openness, lack of shame, mutual learning.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
Live as if you will die tomorrow but learn as if you will live forever.
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.
Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
The deeper one enters into the study of Nature, the further one ventures into and along the by-paths that, like a mystic maze, thread Nature’s realm in every direction, the broader and grander becomes the vista opened up to the view.
[On learning.] Theoretically it’ll be fun, once you engage yourself in reading, so you’ll go pick up a book on your own, instead of thinking of these 16 years as a prison sentence, and afterwards turning off your mind, buying a minivan, having three kids, moving to the suburbs, getting fat and spending the rest of your life walking around a shopping mall.
Lecture
A learning experience is one of those things that says, “You know that thing you just did? Don’t do that.”
The best thing for being sad”, replied Merlyn, beginning to puff and blow, “is to learn something. That is the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then—to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the thing for you. Look at what a lot of things there are to learn—pure science, the only purity there is. You can learn astronomy in a lifetime, natural history in three, literature in six. And then, after you have exhausted a milliard lifetimes in biology and medicine and theocriticism and geography and history and economics—why, you can start to make a cartwheel out of the appropriate wood, or spend fifty years learning to begin to learn to beat your adversary at fencing. After that you can start again on mathematics, until is it is time to learn to plough.
Book: “The Once and Future King” by T.H. White, Berkeley Medallion Edition; July 1966; page 183.
“What I mean is that if you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to someone else. That forces you to sort it out in your own mind. And the more slow and dim-witted your pupil, the more you have to break things down into more and more simple ideas. And that’s really the essence of programming. By the time you’ve sorted out a complicated idea into little steps even a stupid machine can deal with, you’ve certainly learned something about it yourself.”
Book: Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency
Learning to learn is to know how to navigate in a forest of facts, ideas, and theories, a proliferation of constantly changing items of knowledge. Learning to learn is to know what to ignore but at the same time not rejecting innovation and research.
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
The easiest and surest way of acquiring facts is to learn them in groups, in systems, and systemized knowledge is science. You can very often carry two facts fastened together more easily than one by itself, as a housemaid can carry two pails of water with a hoop more easily than one without it.