learning

90% of learning comes through encouragement.

— Kevin Thoman

A big secret to life is when you learn that learning is just as entertaining as entertainment, but with long term benefits.

— Orrin Woodward

A bird cannot fly with broken wings. Your heart cannot love without learning to heal.

— Kemi Sogunle

A book is a treasure of life.

— Lailah Gifty Akita

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation... A book is not only a friend, it makes friends for you. When you have possessed a book with mind and spirit, you are enriched. But when you pass it on you are enriched threefold.

— Henry Miller

(About the magic bathroom). If knowledge is money, and money is gold, then this is modern day Alchemy. Feces (wasted time) is turned into gold (knowledge).

— Peter Rogers

A brain is like a muscle, a serial connection that you should train every day; if you don't use it, you loose it

— Ana Claudia Antunes

Academic pedigree alone is no guarantor of useful knowledge and wisdom.

— Robert Samuelson

Accountability makes no sense when it undermines the larger goals of education.

— Diane Ravitch

A certain elementary training in statistical method is becoming as necessary for everyone living in this world of today as reading and writing.

— H.G. Wells