Learner Quotes

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

2. "The more we want our children to be (1) lifelong learners, genuinely excited about words and numbers and ideas, (2) avoid sticking with what's easy and safe, and (3) become sophisticated thinkers, the more we should do everything possible to help them forget about grades."
Author: Alfie Kohn

3. "Ask and you shall receive; everyone that asks receives.  This is the fixed eternal law of the kingdom:  If you ask and receive not, it must be because there is something amiss or wanting in the prayer. Hold on; let the Word and Spirit teach you to prat aright, but do not let go the confidence he seeks to waken:  Everyone who asks receives....Let every learner in the school of Christ therefore take the Master's word in all simplicity....Let us beware of weakening the word with our human wisdom."
Author: Andrew Murray

4. "Francie is smart, she thought. She must go to high school and maybe beyond that. She's a learner and she'll be somebody someday. But when she's educated, she will grow away from me. Why, she's growing away from me now. She does not love me the way the boy loves me. I feel her turn away from me. She does not understand me. All she understands is that I don't understand her. Maybe when she gets education, she will be ashamed of me - the way I talk. But she will have too much character to show it. Instead she will try to make me different. She will come to see me and try to make me live in a better way and I will be mean to her because I'll know she's above me. She will figure out too much about things as she grows older; she'll get to know too much for her own happiness."
Author: Betty Smith

5. "Time means a lot to me because you see I am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing."
Author: Bruce Lee

6. "It is glorious to become a learner again at my time of life."
Author: Bruno Walter

7. "If we are developing students to be creative, flexible, independent learners, then we cannot scrub away opportunities for mistakes to be made and corrections to be learned. Often times we learn more from what did not go well and we have learned to fix."
Author: Christopher Lehman

8. "So, what can I do?" I asked."Annoy?"I gave him a hurt look.Justus pulled the tip of his hoodie over his eye and lowered his voice. "It remains to be seen; sometimes it takes years to uncover abilities.""Maybe I can't do anything."His blue eyes flashed up to mine. "Learner, we are all gifted."
Author: Dannika Dark

9. "Will robot teachers replace human teachers? No, but they can complement them. Moreover, the could be sufficient in situations where there is no alternative––to enable learning while traveling, or while in remote locations, or when one wishes to study a topic for which there is not easy access to teachers. Robot teachers will help make lifelong learning a practicality. They can make it possible to learn no matter where one is in the world, no matter the time of day. Learning should take place when it is needed, when the learner is interested, not according to some arbitrary, fixed schedule"
Author: Donald A. Norman

10. "Be a smart learner. Learn from your mistakes and adjust your behavior accordingly."
Author: Ehab Atalla

11. "The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner."
Author: Elbert Hubbard

12. "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists."
Author: Eric Hoffer

13. "His lips brushed against mine and I twined my arms around his neck trying to pullhim down on top of me. It was like trying to move a boulder.I gave up with a sigh. He gave me one last lingering kiss and moved away but not before saying with a wink, "If you're a good girl at training, the reward will be well worth it." And with that promise, I perked up. I'll be the fastest freaking learner ever."
Author: Eve Langlais

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

15. "I didn't have years. But I am a quick learner and was in human-sponge mode. I demonstrated."
Author: Graeme Simsion

16. "But men don't dry up, Melena objected; they can father to the death. Ah, we're slow learners, Nanny countered. But they can't learn at all."
Author: Gregory Maguire

17. "Many persons have been confused and discouraged at the very outset of the study by the great variety and the delicate distinctions of the openings: and this has constituted a fault in many otherwise excellent manuals for the learner."
Author: Howard Staunton

18. "Gary Speed was honourable, trustworthy and a joy to manage. He was honest, he was a role model and he was a great bloke. An avid learner, he recognised responsibility and he was always fully committed."
Author: Howard Wilkinson

19. "There is a succession of experiences which together constitute the educational and developmental ripening of the learner, according to the Sufis. People who think that each gain is the goal itself will freeze at any such stage, and cannot learn through successive and superseding lessons."
Author: Idries Shah

20. "A good teacher does not teach all that he knows. He teaches all that the learners need to know at the time, and all that the learners can accountably learn in the time given."
Author: Jane Vella

21. "Learners are encouraged to discover facts and relationships for themselves."
Author: Jerome Bruner

22. "Well I'm not dancing," Will said through gritted teeth. "I don't know how."Oh yes you are," Alyss told him. "Let's hope you're a fast learner."He glanced at her and saw no prospect of escape. "Well,at least I won't be the only one," he said. "Halt will be terrible too."But nobody in the assembly knew tat for the past ten days, Halt had been taking dance lessons from Lady Sandra."
Author: John Flanagan

23. "It is not the teacher's proper task to be constantly testingand checking the understanding of the learner. That's the learner's task, andonly the learner can do it. The teacher's job is to answer questions whenlearners ask them, or to try to help learners understand better when they askfor that help."
Author: John Holt

24. "Richard Felder is co-developer of the Index of Learning Styles. He suggests that there are eight different learning styles. Active learners absorb material best by applying it in some fashion or explaining it to others. Reflective learners prefer to consider the material before doing anything with it. Sensing learners like learning facts and tend to be good with details. Intuitive learners like to identify the relationships between things and are comfortable with abstract concepts. Visual learners remember best what they see, while verbal learners do better with written and spoken explanations. Sequential learners like to learn by following a process from one logical step to the next, while global learners tend to make cognitive leaps, continuously taking in information until they "get it."
Author: Ken Robinson

25. "Without ongoing training in tailoring instruction to individual learners (and support in doing so), "fault" for underperformance or disengagement from learning is frequently shifted to the child: The child is lazy, has an attitude problem, or refuses to work up to his or her potential. The child is enormously vulnerable in this system."
Author: Kirsten Olson

26. "A well-stocked, well-staffed library is like a gardener who plants books, knowledge, and dreams and grows readers, learners, and do-ers."
Author: Laura Purdie Salas

27. "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."
Author: Lyndon B. Johnson

28. "Jesus-shaped spirituality hears Jesus say "believe and repent," but the call that resonates most closely in the heart of a disciple is "follow me." The command to follow requires that we take a daily journey in the company of other students. It demands that we be lifelong learners and that we commit to constant growth in spiritual maturity. Discipleship is a call to me, but it is a journey of "we."
Author: Michael Spencer

29. "A hungry man can be a fast learner. When you come to a table with nothing but need, you are grateful for things you might have pushed aside before. And when you kneel, hungry & broken at His table, you receive a grace from Him you might, at some other time, have completely missed."
Author: Mike Yankoski

30. "All of which indicates that he's quite a fast learner. When you approve of a politician, this is known as flexibility; when you don't, it's called lack of principal - but in fact, politics requires accommodation."
Author: Molly Ivins

31. "Reading a book should be a conversation between you and the author. Presumably he knows more about the subject than you do; if not, you probably should not be bothering with his book. But understanding is a two-way operation; the learner has to question himself and question the teacher, once he understands what the teacher is saying. Marking a book is literally an expression of your differences or your agreements with the author. It is the highest respect you can pay him."
Author: Mortimer J. Adler

32. "Tool," William said,...."As in a device to perform or facilitate mechanical or manual labor?" "That's right Encyclopedia Britannica. Or in layman's terms: screwdriver, hammer—" "How about a wrench," William interrupted," —"You've got a quick learner on your hands, Bryn," Paul said .... "Sure, wrench works just fine as well," ... "Whatever blows your skirt up buddy." ..."Well a wrench would come in handy right now," William mused. "Because you definitely have a couple screws loose. Credit Eternal Eden"
Author: Nicole Williams

33. "Failure gives the bald hairs; equips the novice with experience. The learner, sooner or later, becomes a teacher by it."
Author: Ogwo David Emenike

34. "Today Learner is Tomorrow Leader"
Author: Plato

35. "Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss."
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson

36. "We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state."
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson

37. "Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, teachers."
Author: Richard Bach

38. "You can't live like as you're the wisest one.You've to think like a fresher, a new learner to see the beautiful spectrum of life which were never revealed to you."
Author: Riyadh Razzaq

39. "Life is study and we are LEARNER"
Author: Samar Sudha

40. "Teachers have three loves: love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together."
Author: Scott Hayden

41. "I'm pretty instinctive. I'm a quick learner."
Author: Shannon Elizabeth

42. "Who Am I? I'm a creator, a visionary, a poet. I approach the world with the eyes of an artist, the ears of a musician, and the soul of a writer. I see rainbows where others see only rain, and possibilities when others see only problems. I love spring flowers, summer's heat on my body, and the beauty of the dying leaves in the fall. Classical music, art museums, and ballet are sources of inspiration, as well as blues music and dim cafes. I love to write; words flow easily from my fingertips, and my heart beats rapidly with excitement as an idea becomes a reality on the paper in front of me. I smile often, laugh easily, and I weep at pain and cruelty. I'm a learner and a seeker of knowledge, and I try to take my readers along on my journey. I am passionate about what I do. I learned to dream through reading, learned to create dreams through writing, and learned to develop dreamers through teaching. I shall always be a dreamer. Come dream with me."
Author: Sharon M. Draper

43. "I am a listener, learner and seeker; and the sun will shine for me on the auspicious path of virtues."
Author: Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann

44. "I sit on the bench in front of Bell's Market and think about Homer Buckland and about the beautiful girl who leaned over to open his door when he come down that path with the full red gasoline can in his right hand - she looked like a girl of no more than sixteen, a girl on her learner's permit, and her beauty was terrible, but I believe it would no longer kill the man it turned itself on; for a moment her eyes lit on me, I was not killed, although a part of me died at her feet." (from the short story Mrs. Todd's Shortcut)"
Author: Stephen King

45. "I'm 16 years old. Let me get my learner's permit first. then I'll worry about lifetime commitments"
Author: Susan Beth Pfeffer

46. "Accountable Authentic Collaborative Courageous Passionate Lifelong learner Welcomes feedback Biased toward action Solution oriented Change agent"
Author: Susan Scott

47. "By the time these students enter the workforce, many of the jobs they will apply for ill be in industries that don't even exist yet. That's a hard future to prepare someone for. Teachers have their sights set on the real goal: not to produce Ivy League graduates, but to encourage the development of naturally curious, confident, flexible, and happy learners who are ready for whatever the future has in store."
Author: Taylor Mali

48. "His desires are set upon the whole human family, not upon a select few. He is not predisposed to just the fast learners, the naturally inclined, or the morally gifted."
Author: Terryl L. Givens

49. "Writers and learners will write better and learn more if they understand the "why" of what they are studying."
Author: William Zinsser

50. "Life is a classroom -- only those who are willing to be lifelong learners will move to the head of the class."
Author: Zig Ziglar

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