Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.
—Dr. David M. Burns
Machines are for answers; humans are for questions.
—Kevin Kelly
Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.
—Haim Ginott
There are some people who, if they don't already know, you can't tell 'em.
—Yogi Berra
It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.
—Cyril Connolly
In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.
—William Blake
It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
—John Wooden
Always desire to learn something useful.
—Sophocles
Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.
—Norman Douglas
If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.
—Pema Chödrön
I'm not trying to hide my past. I've learned a lot from it. It's made me who I am today, and I'm proud of who I've become.
—Amber Lynn Natusch in Undertow
Our marriage license turned out to be a learner's permit.
—Joan Rivers
I would agree that learning is a natural act if we are talking about the kind of learning that happens in a healthy relationship between a mother and her baby or between two people getting to know each other. But schooling is not a natural act. Quite the contrary: The institution of School, with its daily lesson plans, fixed curriculum, standardized tests, and other such paraphernalia tends constantly to reduce learning to a series of technical acts and the teacher to the role of a technician. Of course, it never fully succeeds, for teachers resist the role of technician and bring warm, natural human relationships into their classrooms. But what is important for thinking about the potential for megachange is that this situation places the teacher in a state of tension between two poles: School tries to make the teacher into a technician; in most cases a sense of self resists, though in many the teacher will have internalized School's concept of teaching. Each teacher is therefore somewhere along the continuum between technician and what I dare call a true teacher.
—Seymour Papert in The Children's Machine: Rethinking School in the Age of the Computer
She didn't know how to be semi-interested in something. She was either indifferent… or obsessed.
—Helen Hoang in The Kiss Quotient
A specification that will not fit on one page of 8.5x11 inch paper cannot be understood.
—Mark Ardis