“Erica had asked me a million times. 'Madison, are you sure you’re just the child minder? He pays you a lot of money for doing hardly anything.' Pushing aside the blatant insinuation that I was his weekend whore, I’d always told her the absolute truth. He’d never so much as looked at me inappropriately, let alone anything more.”
Source: If I Let You Go
“The wisest Wizards don’t hoard knowledge. They get excited when they realize how much they still don’t know.”
—The Unknown Archmage”
Source: Think Like a Wizard
“One teaches out of love: it's an impertinence, an imposition, in the end it's terrifying.”
Source: Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke
“Everyone has to lose their way once. It's the only way they learn.”
Source: Fruits Basket, Vol. 16
“Many Quakers embody the dynamic of contemplation and activism. Inward-focused contemplation compliments outward-focused missions to prisons, polluted rivers, and plastic-bloated seas.”
Source: Holistic Mysticism: The Integrated Spiritual Path of the Quakers
“You have to keep learning
all your life.”
Source: The Year of Miss Agnes
“Nem céltalan - tiltakoztam. - A legtöbbet az olyan kérdésekbő tanulunk, amelyekre nem tudunk válaszolni. Megtanítanak arra, hogyan gondolkodjunk. Ha megadod valakinek a választ, csak ténnyel lesz gazdagabb. De ha kérdést adsz neki, ő maga keresi meg rá a választ. (...) - Ilyen módon, ha megtalálja a választ az sokat jelent majd neki. Minél nehezebb a kérdés, annál elszántabban kutatjuk a választ. Minél elszántabban kutatunk, annál többet tanulunk.”
“Learning about new subjects can empower you.”
“Don’t be afraid to go back to a beginner’s level, even if you are older than other students.”
Source: Learning How to Learn: How to Succeed in School Without Spending All Your Time Studying; A Guide for Kids and Teens
“A metaphor helps you understand a new idea by connecting it to something you already know. Whenever a metaphor doesn’t work or breaks down, you can just throw it away and get a new one.”
Source: Learning How to Learn