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Learning

«Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.»
«Children are more influenced by sermons you act than by sermons you preach.»
«Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things.»
Author: Dogen | About: Learning, Listening | Keywords: The Voice, unity
«Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.»
Author: Dr. Haim Ginott | About: Children, Learning
«Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting.»
Author: Jim Carrey (Actor) | About: Desperation, Learning
«Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.»
«Each excellent thing, once learned, serves for a measure of all other knowledge»
Author: Sir Philip Sidney (Statesman) | About: Knowledge, Learning | Keywords: serves
«Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities - that's training or instruction - but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed»
«Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life»
«Children learn to creep ere they can learn to go»
Author: Proverb | About: Children, Learning | Keywords: creep