Leanring Quotes

“Faith is the courage to live your life as if everything that happens does so for your highest good and learning. Like it or not.”
― Dan Millman, Sacred Journey of the Peaceful Warrior

“[C]ulture, for all its importance, is not some miasma that seeps into people through their skin. Culture relies on neural circuitry that accomplishes the feat we call learning. Those circuits do not make us indiscriminate mimics but have to work in surprisingly subtle ways to make the transmission of culture possible. That is why it is not an alternative to a focus on learning, culture and socialization, but rather an attempt to explain how they work.”
― Stephen Pinker

“The matron glanced at the old man and suppressed a smile. “He is absolutely miserable.”

“I enjoy miserable. It gives one a contrast to all the delectabilities of life. But is he housebroken, inpala? He is rather rumpled. He will look well on my ship, but will he wash well? Do professors fray as a general rule? I will not have my ship looking ragged.”

“They do tend to fade after a few years of hard use.”
― Michelle Franklin

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