“Active Learning that is aimed at solving specific problems is the marriage of attention and intention and leads to positive outcomes for both the learner and beneficiaries of their output. Active learning can help you achieve a state of flow.”
Source: Do What Matters: The Purpose Driven Career Transition Guide: Infusing the principles of sustainability and purpose into any career and transition.
“Before the war, they were happy, he said,
quoting our textbook. (This was senior-year
history class.) The slaves were clothed, fed,
and better off under a master's care.
I watched the words blur on the page. No one
raised a hand, disagreed. Not even me.”
Source: Monument: Poems New and Selected
“When we are researching or having conversations, is our aim to learn and love or is it to prove a point?”
“Ah, here we are. Your watercoach, Myerialanna.”Calivan gestured to a lacquered blue-green boat, open at the front, and shaped to resemble a cresting wave, complete with silver fringe and accents made to resemble sea foam.
“How beautiful,” Gabriella said as Dilys helped her into the fanciful canal boat. “I almost feel as if it should be pulled by a harnessed team of dolphins.”
“That’s only for when we take the coach for a spin on the open sea,” Dilys said.”
Source: The Sea King
“By forgetting everything you have learned, that is the moment you start educating.”
“Every atom in the world is teeming with lessons, but no atom is free from biases and predispositions.”
Source: Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans
“Learn of the skilful: He that teaches himself, hath a fool for his master.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“Turns out that life can throw you in any kind of a situation, and you never know what type of knowledge might ever come in handy. But when it does, you feel happier than ever.”
Source: The Prison of Deviants
“To pass from understanding less to understanding more by your own intellectual effort in reading is something like pulling yourself up by your bootstraps.”
Source: How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
“Growth requires the acceptance of the most uncomfortable truth.”
Source: Find A Cause Outside Yourself: Sermon of Sustainability