It's a fundamental social attitude that the 1% supports symphonies and operas and doesn't support Johnny learning to program hip-hop beats. When I put it like that it sounds like 'Well yeah ' but you start to think 'Why not though?' What makes one more valuable than another?
Like success failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude failure is a learning experience a rung on the ladder a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.
Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences and adorned with much and varied learning by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts.
Violence is a problem we all want to solve. I want to make sure that kids learn to deal with anger by learning how to talk with people to solve problems. Here in the United States Senate I want to make sure we have safe schools safe neighborhoods and good things for kids to do after school!
Whether it's 18 years old or 40 years old we think we know what's going on. But if you're lucky enough to continue the journey its amazing how we keep learning how much we didn't know.
I finish so many books it's amazing. I'm also doing Rosetta Stone learning some French.
I really have a great deal of humility in that department and a great deal of respect for people who spend their lives learning how to make these amazing preparations.
But if you observe children learning in their first few years of life you can see that they can and do learn on their own - we leave them alone to crawl walk talk and gain control over their bodies. It happens without much help from parents.
In a world that is constantly changing there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future let alone for the rest of your life. The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn.
My learning process is by eye alone it's not at all scientific.
Benevolence alone will not make a teacher nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.
I'm learning a lot about myself being alone and doing what I'm doing.
The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.
I hope to find the roles that are age appropriate but not yearning to be younger or parenting ad nauseam.
The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old.
Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present the more intense that yearning.
Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.
English people don't have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly and learning French at an early age helped me enormously.
A major advantage of age is learning to accept people without passing judgment.
It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood all the work into middle age and all the regrets into old age.
Anyone who stops learning is old whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.