Quotes about Learning

Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school.

'Discipleship' as a term has lost its content, and this is one reason why it has been moved aside. I've tried to redeem the idea of discipleship, and I think it can be done; you have to get it out of the contemporary mode.

If you're not comfortable with public speaking - and nobody starts out comfortable; you have to learn how to be comfortable - practice. I cannot overstate the importance of practicing. Get some close friends or family members to help evaluate you, or somebody at work that you trust.

Learn what is true in order to do what is right.

The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.

I have found that the more I teach those who want to learn, the more I learn.

Any man can learn anything he will, but no man can teach except to those who want to learn.

People change when they hurt enough that they have to change, learn enough that they want to change, receive enough that they are able to change.

The lips of the righteous teach many, but fools die for want of wisdom.

He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand.

For me the university has always been an ideal context for spiritual formation. I always felt that if you want to offer spiritual formation at the university, you can.

Your best servant is the person who does not attend so much to hearing what he himself wants as to willing what he has heard from you.