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“[Boulding grasps the significance of sociobiology's emphasis on biogenetics] that there are biogenetic factors in learning capacity and potential can hardly be denied... [yet] biogenetically imposed limits to human learning... seem to be much more remote... than are the limitations imposed by the biogenetic structure.”
Kenneth Boulding (1910–1993) first seen 1980 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 21 as cited in: W.R. Brown and M.J. Schaefermeyer (1980) "Progress in communication as a social science". In: Dan Nimmo eds. Communication Yearbook 4. p. 38
“I only wanted to have fun Learning to fly, learning to run. I let my heart decide the way When I was young Deep down, I must have always known That this would be inevitable To earn my stripes, I'd have to pay And bare my soul.”
Adele (singer) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A child learning his [her] mother tongue is learning how to name; he [she] is building up a meaning potential in respect of a limited number of social functions. These functions [instrumental, regulatory, interactional, personal, heuristic, and imaginative] constitute the semiotic environment of a very small child, and may be thought of as universals of human culture”
Michael Halliday (1925–2018) first seen 1978 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Michael Halliday (1978, p. 121) as cited in: Harry Daniels, Michael Cole, James V. Wertsch (2007) The Cambridge Companion to Vygotsky. p. 148.
“Complex human learning is a concept involving communication between the participant in the learning process, who commonly occupy the roles of learner and teacher.”
Gordon Pask (1928–1996) first seen 1976 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Pask (1976) "Conversational techniques in the study and practice of education", In: British Journal of Educational Psychology, Vol 46, p. 24.
“A [learning] style is a disposition to adopt one class of learning strategy.”
Gordon Pask (1928–1996) said by 1996 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Anyway, that's what life is, just one learning experience after another, and when you're through with all the learning experiences you graduate and what you get for a diploma is, you die.”
Frederik Pohl (1919–2013) first seen 1978 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Gateway (1978)
“As a CEO, I am finding that I have to become a learning CEO. I have to go to school all the time because I am learning new skills that I need to run this company and I am realising that I am not equipped to just coast, I have to constantly renew my skills.”
Indra Nooyi (born 1955) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When I visited St Margaret's School in ... I was struck by pride that the children took in their faith, and their identification with the ethos of the school. These children were not just learning to be good students. They were learning to be good people.”
Alex Salmond (1954–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The subject of learning lies in the provinces of neuroscience and psychology. It is the opposite of instinct. Instinct is generically-determined behaviour; learning is behaviour modified by experience.”
Matt Ridley (born 1958) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What is learning but a set of sensory signals from the environment, with different forms of learning resulting from different types or patterns of sensory signals?”
Eric Kandel (born 1929) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In our modern world, we look unkindly on mistakes and imperfection. But this is far from the samurai ideal. Mistakes are part of the learning process and if you haven't made them then you are, indeed, dangerous because it means you have never learned anything. Mistakes, to a samurai, are the proof of your learning.”
Alexei Maxim Russell wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The courageous testimony of Dr. Faust that a maiden's smile is more precious than history, philosophy, education, religion, law, politics, economics, and all the other branches of learning. Learning is another name for vanity. It is the effort of human beings not to be human beings.”
Osamu Dazai (1909–1948) said by 1948 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Learning science means learning to talk science... Talking science means observing, describing, comparing, classifying, analysing, discussing, hypothesizing, theorizing, questioning, challenging, arguing, designing experiments, following procedures, judging, evaluating, deciding, concluding, generalizing, reporting ... in and through the language of science.”
Jay Lemke (born 1946) first seen 1997 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 1; as cited in: Bernard Laplante, "Teaching science to language minority students in elementary classrooms." NYSABE Journal 12 (1997): 62-83.
“Science teachers have a special responsibility to study the nature of science as a discipline, how it works, how it is described by sociologists, historians, and philosophers from different points of view…. Science education cannot just be about learning science: Its foundation must be learning about the nature of science as a human activity.”
Jay Lemke (born 1946) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 175; as cited in: Hanuscin, Deborah L., and Michele H. Lee. "Teaching Against the Mystique of Science: Literature Based Approaches in Elementary Teacher Education." Learning, Teaching, and Curriculum presentations (M…
“Learning is to a man as the leaves and branches are to a tree, and it can be said that he should not be without it. Learning is not only reading books, however, but is rather something that we study to integrate with our own way of life.”
Takeda Shingen (1521–1573) said by 1573 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The kind of education we are looking for, it is necessary that teachers have to walk through this learning process and then practise them later on in their teaching. Professionalism can be achieved by teachers if they practise learning in their teaching.”
Sukavich Rangsitpol (born 1935) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The "scaffolding" practice that forces every learner to go along a very definite path of learning will create negative feelings about learning. At the end, the learners will be submissive to the teachers. Good disciplinary practices cannot then be achieved.”
Sukavich Rangsitpol (born 1935) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Learning is most often considered a process of getting rather than giving. This is most evident in conceptions of student/teacher roles: Teachers give and students get. Yet, in adult learning both giving and getting are critical.”
David A. Kolb (born 1939) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If the streambed of education is being enlarged, one formidable force altering its contours is competition. Learning is where you find it: on "Sesame Street," in inner games of tennis and the Zen of everything, in teaching and learning cooperatives, in computers, on FM radio, in self-help books, in magazines... and television documentaries.”
Marilyn Ferguson (1938–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If we are not learning and teaching we are not awake and alive. Learning is not only like health, it is health. p. 282”
Marilyn Ferguson (1938–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In short, I was behaving well...but at another level I was just Going Through The Motions. One of the things about being a grown-up is learning how to do that, learning how to act right even when you feel wrong.”
Sean Stewart (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We can use Machine Learning to diagnose diseases and we don't need to use machine learning to target advertisements to people. We can use it to cure their cancers. Just think about that.”
Joe Armstrong (programmer) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The thing that people have to realize is there's homeschooling and there's home education. Homeschooling is best described as doing homework with your child that he or she is assigned by a school teacher. Home education is parent-lead learning. The goal of a home educator is to instill and cultivate a love for learning that will last a lifetime.”
Sam Sorbo (born 1964) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sam Sorbo says home education is imperative in these times: ‘Public school denies the moral good’ (August 30, 2020)
“Learning how to fall teaches you how to land. And learning how to land gives you the courage to jump high.”
Michelle Yeoh (born 1962) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Seeing people lose lives in the course of my field of work has given me a totally different outlook on death and acceptance and learning to live in the moment, learning to do what needs to be done now, because tomorrow is not assured.”
Shitsama Nyamweya (born 1983) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in the radio station interview titled Catch Up Radio with neurosurgeon Dr. Beverly Cheserem and Dr. Sylvia Shitsama #DriveInn by Davina & Fareed on 31 Aug 2021.
“Entrepreneurship for me is a personal journey rather than a business journey, which is why perseverance and humility go a long way. Entrepreneurship, especially at a young age, is an incredibly steep learning curve and learning every day is a very humbling experience because you have to acknowledge how little you know and perhaps how-not-so-smart you are, and still keep going regardless.”
Rapelang Rabana wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Everyone understood that Latin learning was inseparable from whipping. One educational theorist of the time speculated that the buttocks were created in order to facilitate the learning of Latin.”
Stephen Greenblatt (born 1943) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Yes, we must endeavour to be global citizens, learning from each other - learning from the variety of solutions which have been arrived at for what could have been essentially the same problem - but we must retain our individuality, our culture, our beliefs - those things which make us different, those things that make us what we are.”
Gladys Olebile Masire (1932–2013) first seen 1997 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Keynote Address, Global Connections, by Gorata Mokgatla, (February 10, 1997),Young Africa Botswana, retrieved 29 November 2022
“Learning what your strengths are and learning how to exploit the strengths and downplay the weaknesses of certain forms of media, I think, is something that we’re struggling with in the social sphere”
Ann Marie Lipinski (born 1956) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It helps them (student) to get a job immediately because while they are learning on the job, they immediately know what they are learning, like a person who learns to sew and learns to do it. When they graduate, they quickly find a job or become self-employed.”
Fanfan Rwanyindo Kayirangwa first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: training helps combat youth unemployment; Rwanyindo said" ("Igihe" 16 December 2021)
“it delights me that I can be learning an ancient language by completely modern technologies, sitting at my office, eating lunch, learning Potawatomi grammar.”
Robin Wall Kimmerer (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Lifelong learning must not be confined to the classroom or to any age in life as life is dynamic; and the day you stop learning, you become intellectually dead and cease to be relevant to your society.”
Nana Aba Appiah Amfo wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My focus will be to intensify capacity-building and staff development and expand the frontiers of research and learning while ensuring that students have a better learning experience in FUTA.”
Adenike Oladiji (born 1968) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is pertinent to note that every Secondary School in Lagos State uses the Schemes of Work for their daily teaching and learning process. No effective teaching and learning can take place in schools without recourse to it since all topics and scopes of the lessons to be taught are drawn from it.”
Folashade Adefisayo first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Mrs Folashade on curriculumn of secondary schools in 2019.
“The most important aspect of learning is the quality of teachers and we did not have enough teachers to actualise the set plan for learning in our public schools.”
Folashade Adefisayo first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Mrs Folashade speak on the quality of teachers in an online show in 2020.
“The world is a global village, the methodology of teaching and learning has become so diverse that we must also look deeply at the diversification of the teaching and learning model in and around the world.”
Oluwayemisi Oluremi Obilade (born 1958) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Prof Oluremi speak on teaching model in 2020.
“For an activity to qualify as an instance of independent learning it must exhibit learner control over the direction of learning efforts, even if this is temporarily submerged in order to acquire specific skills.”
Stephen Brookfield (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I’m still learning how to be a good person. I feel that sometimes, I’m not objective enough. When you think of situations from a different point of view, you’ll discover that it might be the reason why disagreements occur in the first place. Learning to be more accepting of different points of views and mindsets is very important.”
Carina Lau (born 1965) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Carina Lau Doesn’t Think You Need Good Looks To Be A Star" in Today (3 November 2019)
“The real influence on a book is the emotional and intellectual engagement you have with the ideas that are in it. The way other writers exert influence is more about learning skills, like learning how to correctly julienne a pepper or dice an onion. Just having good knife skills doesn’t make you a chef.”
Catherine Lacey (author) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Learning does not end. I will create the time for it. I am a teacher, so, I should be able to find a way to keep learning, studying and improving myself by increasing my value. I am definitely not stopping.”
Abimbola Abolarinwa (born 1980) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The process you’re educating yourself, you are learning about yourself, you are learning about other people, you are meeting people, and people can see your work and your passion – and it will lead to something.”
Amy Jadesimi (born 1976) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If I had to put it down to one thing that would make a woman successful, it would be to keep learning and keep applying what you have learnt. And once we keep learning and keep applying what we have learnt, we keep stepping up one more step.”
Toyin Saraki (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Unaffordable e-learning gadgets are still an obstacle. Though, some parents and students have not yet also perceived the efficiency of technology in teaching and learning. The awareness is also much needed. This resistance of adjusting to technology has been indicated by parents who hire teachers to coach children in homes”
Bella Rwigamba first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: EDTECH PARTNERS POINT A FINGER AT TWO CHALLENGES IN E-LEARNING KT Press (June 29,2021)
“Learning to defend myself, to be willing to take the risk of being a bad girl, was a process with a steep learning curve. But like with so many other things, I learned how to stand up even when other people were certain I should be content to sit down. Being good at being bad has been scary, fun, rewarding, and ultimately probably the only path that I was ever meant to walk.”
Mikki Kendall (born 1976) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The highest quality of thinking cannot emerge without learning. Learning can’t happen without mistakes.”
Liz Wiseman (born 1964) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: GREAT VISION WITHOUT GREAT PEOPLE IS IRRELEVANT’ – 40 QUOTES FROM INDIAN STARTUP JOURNEYS YourStory (June 18, 2018)
“Education is without beginning or end. There is not a single location that is not a place of learning, and there is not a single moment that is not a time for learning. (DRBU website)”
Hsuan Hua (1918–1995) said by 1995 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The direction of history is that the more data we get, the more our methods rely on learning. Ultimately, the task use learning end to end. That's what happened for speech, handwriting, and object recognition. It's bound to happen for NLP.”
Yann LeCun (born 1959) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Given that the education system globally is constantly changing, this requires inclusive learning, and agile leadership for swift responses to remote learning and a digital-first curriculum, both requiring the engagement of the private sector.”
Rania Al-Mashat (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Paraphrase: There is no virtue inherent in unconstructive suffering. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. If we can be open to learning from our pain, then we are truly growing; if we merely wallow in it, we are not.”
M. Scott Peck (1936–2005) said by 2005 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When I was younger, I was interested in science and learning about how the world worked and objects from outer space. So, I wanted to combine my passion for learning about space and how things work – and the answer was Aerospace Engineering.”
Wanjiku Chebet Kanjumba wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source