Learner Quotes

I've got a little baby, I made him ... He doesn't speak, he's 2 ... He's a slow learner, he's only got 2 words ... car and map ... I'm slightly worried he's trying to escape. If his next word is passport we are in serious trouble! ~ Michael McIntyre

I will keep reading. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We encounter great souls by reading great books. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Kids made fun of me because I was a slow learner, because I was hyperactive, because of a lot of things. Running gave me confidence. ~ Steve Prefontaine

A sage is a good teacher, but an even greater learner. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

I used to be really insecure about my self-education. I'm definitely always learning. But there's many ways to learn. There are many, many ways to always be a learner. ~ Maggie Grace

I live in paradise within the pages of a book. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I'm not an educator ... I'm a learner. ~ Bill Gates

My aim in homeschooling is to give my children the ability to be an adult learner, a skill set that will last the rest of their lives. ~ Nancy Pearcey

Why does Sea World have a seafood restaurant I'm halfway through my fish burger and I realize Oh man ... I could be eating a slow learner. ~ Lyndon B. Johnson

Mistakes are expensive. Mistakes are good, because we can learn from them. I must be a slow learner because I repeat most of mine. ~ Linda Greenlaw

No, what Great Aunt Winifred was suffering from was the persecution every happily single woman suffers: the predictable social condemnation of her independence and childlessness. Dorothy reminded herself of what she'd learned during a university course on feminist history (with a strong Marxist slant): spinsters are a threat to patriarchy. ~ Tobsha Learner

It is glorious to become a learner again at my time of life. ~ Bruno Walter

What matters is that she becomes an engaged lifelong learner and an adaptable thinker who can thrive in any environment and is comfortable dealing with other cultures. ~ Ben Green

The Old Soul is more inclined to be a lifelong learner, constantly feeding his thirst for insight through his own persistent efforts. His learning has not been forced into him through education or learned out of obligation, but has been absorbed out of curiosity and personal choice. ~ Aletheia Luna

It is not the teacher's proper task to be constantly testing
and checking the understanding of the learner. That's the learner's task, and
only the learner can do it. The teacher's job is to answer questions when
learners ask them, or to try to help learners understand better when they ask
for that help. ~ John Holt

Our knowledge is limited. However, reading augments our knowledge. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing great could ever be achieved, without personal force, determined spirit and self-confidence. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I reached a point where I'd watched enough directors do the job that I felt I understood it. And it's not that I'm a slow learner and it took me this long; I also was enjoying writing, and I still enjoy writing - I get tremendous satisfaction out of the writing end of it. ~ Dan Gilroy

To learn to ride a bicycle, as with the other great noble human inventions, is a hugely complex activity. Generally, it requires three things: the learner, the teacher and the bicycle, all in the same place at the same time, most often outside someplace. ~ Chris Raschka

A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many. ~ Seneca The Younger

As a reader I like both great characterization and fast moving plots. The challenge is to balance the both and not compromise one for the other. ~ Tobsha Learner

I'm pretty instinctive. I'm a quick learner. ~ Shannon Elizabeth

He is not likely to learn who is not willing to be taught; for the learner has something to do, as well as the teacher. ~ Benjamin Whichcote

The close observer soon discovers that the teacher's task is not to implant facts but to place the subject to be learned in front of the learner and, through sympathy, emotion, imagination, and patience, to awaken in the learner the restless drive for answers and insights which enlarge the personal life and give it meaning. ~ Nathan M. Pusey

If you are willing to be a self-learner, you can develop yourself. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Accepting the key premise that the learner is the primary customer of schooling means others follow naturally ... The core business of schooling is learning, and the quality of learning experienced by all learners should be the standard against which performance is measured. ~ David Hood

Sure I do," countered Lila cheerfully. "There's Dull London, Kell London, Creepy London, and Dead London," she recited, ticking them off on her fingers. "See? I'm a fast learner. ~ V.E Schwab

I divide the word into learners and nonlearners. There are people who learn, who are open to what happens around them, who listen, who hear the lessons. When they do something stupid, they don't do it again. And when they do something that works a little bit, they do it even better and harder the next time. The question to ask is not whether you are a success or a failure, but whether you are a learner or a nonlearner. ~ Benjamin Barber

I woke to find the sun streaming through the bedroom window. Looking up with one eye opened and the other still closed, I saw that Luca was awake, lying on one side and looking down on me.
"Good morning. Do you want to talk Adriana?"
"No, I just want to fuck. Oh, good morning by the way."
"For a prospective sub you are becoming a little demanding."
"Sorry, am I not supposed to want sex?"
"There's absolutely nothing wrong with you wanting sex, in fact it is a condition of you being here in bed with me. It's just that a good little sub waits to be asked."
"Sorry. Then of course I will withdraw that demand and lie here to await your pleasure."
"Good, a fast learner, that's what I like. ~ Rachel De Vine

A good learner is forever walking the narrow path between blindness and hallucination. ~ Pedro Domingos

Be a smart learner. Learn from your mistakes and adjust your behavior accordingly. ~ Ehab Atalla

Theoretically speaking a good reader should also be a good learner, whatever the century and the place! ~ Carl William Brown

Do not be afraid ask questions. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

For one who is a learner and who has not yet come to master their mind, but who dwells aspiring for peace from that which binds, making it a matter concerning himself, I know of no other thing as helpful as giving close attention to the mind. ~ Gautama Buddha

Mistakes are stepping stones for great achievement. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Understanding is a two-way operation; the learner has to question himself and question the teacher. ~ Mortimer J. Adler

One of the most intriguing ideas in the developmental sciences over the past decades is the phenomenon of the "J-shaped curve."19 While observing children learning to master new skills in dozens of domains (math, writing, the arts), psychologists noticed a surprising pattern: as a learner struggles to master difficult new challenges, there is often an initial decline in skill. Errors are made on tasks that previously seemed easy, and the learner feels more "stupid" than ever before. This is the dip that forms the middle part of the "J." But it turns out that the "stupid mistakes," in retrospect, were nothing more than growth errors. Once the learner gets past the dip, performance rises rapidly to new heights. ~ William Damon

The building blocks of mathematical thinking are requisite for more advanced conceptualization. If a student is not ready to move on, then the teacher must take time to assist that learner. ~ Heidi Hayes Jacobs

There is a gap between the knowledge, skills, or state of mind of the learner and what he is to learn, which it seems to me any teaching activity must seek to bridge if it is to deserve that label. Teaching activities must therefore take place at a level where the pupil can take on what it is intended he should learn. ~ Paul Q. Hirst

The divine thoughts comes from God, we are only vessel for its transmission. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I am determined to be a lifelong learner. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Death strips all men of dignity. ~ Tobsha Learner

This may be the very nature of love, a passion as fickle as the sea, full of certainty when the object of desire is absent, yet dubious when confronted again with the lover's presence. ~ Tobsha Learner

Self-discovery is a sacred knowledge ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It can be done. It will be done. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner. ~ Elbert Hubbard

Let your only graduation be in the grave. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

For a highly motivated learner, it's not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you're a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good. ~ Bill Gates

A successful learner, ... must be constrained to draw some conclusions from the input and not others. ~ Steven Pinker

But as we all know, rock 'n' roll will never die, and education too, as Henry Adams always sez, keeps going on forever. ~ Thomas Pynchon

I had made the fatal mistake of believing in his touch, as if the intelligence of his hands, our orgasms, the way he penetrated me, had affected him as much as it had affected me. Perhaps this is the catch cry of the egoist: I love, therefore I must be loved. Perhaps it is the Achilles' heel of my gender. ~ Tobsha Learner

The most important single factor influencing learning is what the learner already knows. Ascertain this and teach him accordingly. ~ David Ausubel

If you've told a child a thousand times and he still doesn't understand, then it is not the child who is a slow learner. ~ Walter B. Barbe

When the playful me shows up, I am ready to be a serious learner ... a culture of playfulness is closely related to the capacity to learn. ~ Rosemary Sutcliff

Happy New Year, Matty." She turned off the television and rolled onto her side. "Matty, I have another question for you." "Uh-oh." "Are you a skilled lover?" "And that concludes our evening chat." "I bet I could be a skilled lover. I'm very energetic. And a quick learner. ~ Jessica Park

The institution of teachership is there for this reason, that the learner must learn how to learn. ~ Idries Shah

Our stories must be written, shared and communicated. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Be bad, and if you can't be bad be worse. ~ Tobsha Learner

When I first became really interested in building furniture, I went to Toys-R-Us, and spent $200 on Transformers toys. By taking the toys apart and studying how they moved, I was able to figure out how to hide a table leaf, what type of contraption I'd need to slide it under the table. I'm a really visual learner. ~ Jeremiah Brent

You only do what is in accordance with your self-image. If you consider yourself shy, you won't be able to start a conversation with a stranger. If you consider yourself a slow learner, you won't think of applying to the top college. ~ Michal Stawicki

All experiences are stories to be told and must be written. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You ought to learn as best as you can. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The treasures of life is hidden in a book. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You can learn at any age. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You will discover all that pertains to life by reading. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Show me a dog who still cannot perform a task after it has been trained over and over again, and I'll tell you who the slow learner is. ~ Barry McDonald

...no learner can afford to be dependent on the teacher for everything that needs to be noticed, so teachers have to teach children to look for possibilities. ~ Peter Johnston

What a gifted child is, in many ways, is a gifted learner. And what a gifted adult is, is a gifted doer. And those are quite separate domains of achievement. ~ Malcolm Gladwell

Rewrite, rewrite, rewrite, don't be precious about your first draft, it's an architectural blueprint to a whole building, be your own worst critic, confront your weakness and remember it's a craft. ~ Tobsha Learner

That's not what it's all about. In fact, it seems we tend to misun-
derstand the very meaning of the word education.
Education comes from the Latin word educare, which literally
means "led out," in the sense of being drawn forth. I find that little
tidbit really interesting, because we don't generally think of educa-
tion in that sense - of drawing forth something from the learner.
Instead, it's far more common to see education treated as some-
thing that's done to the learner - as something that's poured in,
not drawn out. This model is especially popular in corporate train-
ing, with a technique that's known as sheep dip training. ~ Andy Hunt

Current teaching practices tend to begin with syntacticalisation and then move onto lexicalisation. I now believe that this may not be the most efficient approach, as it tends to restrict the amount of language that is presented to the learner, and also tends to involve less memory-based learning than I think is necessary to develop spontaneously produced language. ~ George Woolard

Literature is a sacred knowledge. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The writer's life is a sacred wonder. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I have met many sacred souls in reading. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The teachers are everywhere. What is wanted is a learner. ~ Wendell Berry

If I have nothing but a room full of books, it is enough for me to survive life. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Education is a lifetime knowledge. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The path of light is quest for knowledge. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Can you imagine a world without books to read? ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I thought he should know the truth.
"Some say that I'm a ... well a ..." I hated to say what others teased me mercilessly about... "A... slow learner."
He shrugged as if to indicate that it didn't mean anything to him, but seemed anxious about what to say to console me. Finally, he reached out and touched my hand. "Yeah, but they don't have life mates whose destines are written in the stars." I wanted to groan out loud. I was a slow learner and was to be mated with a vampiric human whose old flame wanted me dead. How was this a good thing? ~ Terry Spear

I'm a fast learner. I may not run as fast as I used to, but I think I still learn as fast. ~ Carl Lewis

I'm a very tactile learner, so I need analog index cards, moving them all about, trying out various sequences for the book's architecture. ~ Joshua Mohr

I wish to keep reading. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You are a slow learner, Winston."
"How can I help it? How can I help but see what is in front of my eyes? Two and two are four."
"Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once. You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane. ~ George Orwell

You must seek to thyself. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I turned 65 last year, and each year I get more and more interested in human health. For most people it happens around age 50, but I've always been a slow learner. It's critical in terms of the cost of health care. ~ Craig Venter

Ancient literature is a rich history. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Begin to pursue your dream. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Teachers craft classrooms that are good matches for their teaching styles as well as for learner needs. ~ Carol Ann Tomlinson

Everyone who's a success, is a continual learner. ~ Zig Ziglar

You're a killer, Keeley.You'd tease a man to death."
He didn't mean it as a compliment, but to her it was a revelation. "I've never tried it before. Now one's ever attracted me enough.You do,and I dont even know why."
When she dropped her hand,he took her wrist. It surprised him to feel the gallop of her pulse there, when her eyes, her voice had been so cool, so steady. "Then you're a quick learner."
"I'd like to think so.If I come to you, you'd be the first."
"The first what?" Temper wanted to stir, especially when she laughed. THen his mind cleared and the meaning flashed through like a thunderbolt. His hand tightened on her wrist, then dropped it as though she had turned to fire.
"That scared you enough to shut you up," she observed. "I'm surprised anything could render you speechless."
"I've..." But he couldn't think.
"No,don't fumble around for words. You'll spoil your image." She couldn't think just why his dazed expression struck her as so funny,or why the shock in his eyes was endearing somehow.
"We'll just say that,under these circumstances, we both have a lot to consider.And now,I'm way behind in my work, and have to get ready for my afternoon class."
She walked away,as easily, as casually, Brian thought numbly, as she might have if they'd just finished discussing the proper treatment for windgalls. She left him reeling.
he'd gone and fallen in love with the gentry,and the gentry was his boss's daughter. And his boss ~ Nora Roberts

One of the major challenges facing creative individuals is that of building upon the continuity of human knowledge while achieving novel insights ... On the one hand, to intensify an inquiry and develop a sense of commitment to a creative life, the learner needs models, teachers, and collaborators. On the other hand, the individual, while building upon the past, needs to transform it, and thus broaden his or her choices. ~ Vera John-Steiner

I'm a constant learner. You need to be a constant student because things change and you have to change and grow. And I emphasize the word 'grow.' ~ Zig Ziglar

The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Be a learner first, a master second, and a student always. ~ Ernie J Zelinski

The writer, unlike his non-writing adult friend, has no predisposed outlook; he seldom observes deliberately. He sees what he didnot intend to see; he remembers what does not seem wholly possible. Inattentive learner in the schoolroom of life, he keeps some faculty free to veer and wander. His is the roving eye. ~ Elizabeth Bowen

If a man approaches a fact in the world around him with a judgment arising from his previous experiences, he shuts himself off by this judgment from the quiet, complete effect which this fact can have on him. The learner must be able each moment to make himself a perfectly empty vessel into which the new world flows. Knowledge is received only in those moments in which every judgment, every criticism coming from ourselves, is silent. For example, when we meet a person, the question is not at all whether we are wiser than he. Even the most unreasoning child has something to reveal to the greatest sage. And if he approach the child with his prejudgment, be it ever so wise, he pushes his wisdom like a dulled glass in front of what the child ought to reveal to him. ~ Rudolf Steiner

Educators remind us that what counts in a classroom is not what the teacher teaches; it's what the learner learns. ~ Alfie Kohn