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“Literacy is much more than an educational priority - it is the ultimate investment in the future and the first step towards all the new forms of literacy required in the twenty-first century. We wish to see a century where every child is able to read and to use this skill to gain autonomy.”

“The first problem for all of us, men and woman, is not to learn, but to unlearn. We are filled with the popular wisdom of several centuries just past, and we are terrified to give it up. Patriotism means obedience, age means wisdom, woman means submission, black means inferior: these are preconceptions imbedded so deeply in our thinking that we honestly may not know that they are there.”

Thinking Knows Men Giving Firsts May Mean Problem Age Past Black Change Learning Century Filled Honestly Obedience Bigotry Inferiors Terrified Submission Preconceptions Unlearn

Author:Gloria Steinem

“There is hardly a more heart-thrilling pleasure enjoyed by mortals, than that which parents feel when seeing their child first being able to 'catch knowledge of objects.”

Feels Firsts Heart Children Able Parent Pleasure Learning Seeing Objects Mortals Enjoyed Thrilling

Author:Sarah Josepha Hale

“Lionel Johnson comes the first to mind, That loved his learning better than mankind, Though courteous to the worst; much falling he Brooded upon sanctity.”

Mind Firsts Fall Learning Worst Mankind Johnson Sanctity Courteous

Book:Later Poems

Source: Later Poems

“There is plenty of room left for exact experiment in art, and the gate has been opened for some time. What had been accomplished in music by the end of the eighteenth century has only begun in the fine arts. Mathematics and physics have given us a clue in the form of rules to be strictly observed or departed from, as the case may be. Here salutary discipline is come to grips first of all with the function of forms, and not with form as the final result … in this way we learn how to look beyond the surface and get to the root of things.”

“(Heinrich von) Kleist would not be a Prussian if his first thought would not have been orderlinessand he would not be a German if he had not placed all his hopes of developing this inner orderliness into education. Education is the secret of life for him as for every German: studying, learning a lot from books, sitting in lectures, keeping notebooks, listening intently to professors.”

Ifs Firsts Has Beens Book Secret Education Learning Study Listening Sitting Developing Professors Lectures Notebook Secret Life Orderliness

Author:Stefan Zweig

“The first indication of a young person's growing smarter is that he no longer understands the things which he used to consider quite intelligible and self-evident.”

Firsts Persons Self Young Used Learning Growing Youth Smarter Evident Indication Self-doubt

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“We all have to learn, in one way or another, that neither men nor boys get second chances in this world. We all get new chances to the end of our lives, but not second chances in the same set of circumstances; and the great difference between one person and another is how he takes hold and uses his first chance, and how he takes his fall if it is scored against him.”

Ifs Men World Way Life Firsts Persons Ends Use Fall Differences Chance Boys Learning Our Lives This World Circumstances One Way Second Chance

Book:True Manliness

Source: True Manliness

“What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.”

Thinking Writing Firsts Success Effort Learning Dance Ease Literacy Life And Love Diligence Just Dance Music And Dance Due Diligence

Book:The Lives of the English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works and Lives of Sundry Eminent Persons

Source: The Lives of the English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works and Lives of Sundry Eminent Persons

“If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.”

“To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?”

“To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.”

Knows Needs Firsts Children Learning Ought Philosophical Adversity Parenting Endure

Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.”

Ifs Inspirational Feels Firsts Lost Education Learning

Book:The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion

Source: The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion

“The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.”

“I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.”

Firsts Spiritual Marriage Learning Violence Concepts Non Violence Wedding Anniversary

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this: What is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. One climbs, one sees. One descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen. There is an art of conducting oneself in the lower regions by the memory of what one saw higher up. When one can no longer see, one can at least still know.”

“To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.”

Inspirational Firsts Motivational Success Growth Learning Hard Work Mountain Patience Hills Climbs Pace Hiking Student Success Being Strong Steep Famous Motivational

Book:The plays and poems of William Shakspeare

Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare

“But what if I make a mistake?' Will asked. Gilan threw back his head and laughed. 'A mistake? One mistake? You should be so lucky. You'll make dozens! I made four or five on my first day alone! Of course you'll make mistakes. Just don't make any of them twice. If you do mess things up, don't try to hide it. Don't try to rationalize it. Recognize it and admit it and learn from it. We never stop learning, none of us.”

Ifs Should Trying Firsts Made Courses Mistake Learning Five Four Lucky Mess Making Mistakes What If Laughed Dozen So Lucky Rationalize Lucky You One Mistake Never Stop Learning

Author:John Flanagan

“Things have their roots and branches. Affairs have their beginnings and their ends. To know what is first and what is last will lead one near the Way.”

Knows Way Firsts Ends Lasts Knowledge Learning Roots Affair Branches Roots And Branches

Author:Confucius

“The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.”

Knows Firsts Steps Learning Ignorant First Steps

Author:Richard Cecil

“The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.”

“It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions by artificial means. Thus we suppress the child's curiosity and then when he lacks a natural interest in learning he is offered special coaching for his scholastic difficulties.”

“From the first, I made my learning, what little it was, useful every way I could.”

Way Firsts Littles Made Education Learning

Author:Mary McLeod Bethune

“If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on the solution, I would spend the first 55 minutes determining the proper question to ask, for once I know the proper question, I could solve the problem in less than five minutes.”

Ifs Knows Firsts Problem Asks Hours Knowledge Learning Five Minutes Solutions Management Solve Five Minutes

Author:Albert Einstein

“One of the first things a family tries to teach its children is the difference between good and evil, right and wrong. One of the first things our schools do is destroy that distinction.”

Trying Firsts Children School Evil Differences Teach Learning Distinction Good And Evil

Author:John Taylor Gatto

“You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.”

Inspirational Firsts Learning Patience Having Patience Short Patience Keep Patience

Author:Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

“I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is, when I call for statistics about the rate of infant mortality, what I want is proof that fewer babies died when I was Prime Minister than when anyone else was Prime Minister. That is a political statistic.”

“What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.”

Thinking Knows Firsts Self Philosophy Business Practice Learning Impossible Conceit Conceited

Author:Epictetus

“First of all, the most important, that is to learn everything good that has survived from other times, and carefully to watch the bad - and throw it out.”

Firsts Important Past Watches Learning Dance Careful Survived Surviving Choreographers Learn From The Past

Author:Ninette de Valois

“The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantelpiece forever.”

Firsts Hands Women Hours Forever Learning Teacher Duty Pure Pages Discourse Wraps Notebook Lecturer Nuggets

Book:Selected Works of Virginia Woolf

Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf

“Don't try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.”

“First you must learn to control your self. The rest follows. Blessed is he who knows himself and commands himself, for the world is his and love and happiness and peace walk with him wherever he goes.”

Knows World Love Firsts Self Happiness Spiritual Spirituality Walks Learning And Love Blessed Command Happiness And Love

Book:Stranger in a Strange Land

Source: Stranger in a Strange Land

“Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last 30 years, many foreign people still speak in foreign languages”

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“I learned respect for womanhood from my father's tender caring for my mother, my sister, and his sisters. Father was the first to arise from dinner to clear the table. My sister and I would wash and dry the dishes each night at Father's request. If we were not there, Father and Mother would clean the kitchen together.”

Ifs Firsts Together Mother Night Father Learning Clear Respect Tables Clean Caring Dinner Motherhood Arise Kitchen Dry My Sister Dishes Womanhood Request Sister

Author:Robert D. Hales

“His [Thomas Edison] method was inefficient in the extreme, for an immense ground had to be covered to get anything at all unless blind chance intervened and, at first, I was almost a sorry witness of his doings, knowing that just a little theory and calculation would have saved him 90 per cent of the labor. But he had a veritable contempt for book learning and mathematical knowledge, trusting himself entirely to his inventor's instinct and practical American sense. In view of this, the truly prodigious amount of his actual accomplishments is little short of a miracle.”

“Trace Science, then, with Modesty thy guide, First strip off all her equipage of Pride, Deduct what is but Vanity or Dress, Or Learning's Luxury or idleness, Or tricks, to show the stretch of the human brain Mere curious pleasure or ingenious pain.”

Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward

“If we put together all that we have learned from anthropology and ethnography about primitive men and primitive society, we perceive that the first task of life is to live. Men begin with acts, not with thoughts.”

Ifs Men Life Firsts Together Science Life Is Learning Perception Tasks Perceive Primitive Anthropology Thoughts On Life Primitive Man Ethnography

Author:William Graham Sumner

“The seeker after stillness should be told that the stillness is always there. Indeed it is in every man. But he has to learn, first, to let it in and, second, how to do so. The first beginning of this is to remember. The second is to recognize the inward pull. For the rest, the stillness itself will guide and lead him to itself.”

“Don't speak to me about your religion; first show it to me in how you treat other people. Don't tell me how much you love your God; show me in how much you love all God's children. Don't preach to me your passion for your faith; teach me through your compassion for your neighbors. In the end, I'm not as interested in what you have to tell or sell as I am in how you choose to live and give.”

People Love Giving Firsts Children Ends God Shows Religion Faith Passion Speak Compassion Knowledge Teach Kindness Learning Love You Politician Treats Sells Neighbor You Choose Show Me Extremist

Author:Cory Booker

“In order for the brain to comprehend the heart must first listen.”

Firsts Heart Order Brain Learning Teaching

Book:Smart Schools: From Training Memories to Educating Minds

Source: Smart Schools: From Training Memories to Educating Minds

“It is true that the mental aspect of kung-fu is the desired end; however, to achieve this end, technical skill must come first.”

Firsts Ends Growth Learning Achieve Skills Aspect Kung Fu Technical Skills

Author:Bruce Lee

“Patience is the First Lesson.”

Life Firsts Learning Lessons Life Lesson

Author:Thomas T. Riley

“By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.”

“In order to taste my cup of water you must first empty your cup.”

Firsts Order Growth Water Inspiring Learning Taste Empty Cups Empty Mind Empty Cup

Book:Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

“I started playing ukulele first for 2 years from age 9 to 11 and got my first guitar and got inspired by blues I heard on the radio that turned me on and I started learning myself.”

Years Firsts Age Learning Heard Inspired Guitar Radio Rock N Roll Ukulele

Author:Johnny Winter

“I'm focussing on what I haven't attained, not what I have. A lot has come to me early. I don't want to get consumed with that. Winners live in the present tense. People who come up short are consumed with future or past. I want to be living in the now. My goal is to play one full game in the now, but I haven't even gotten past the first inning yet. I start thinking about where my mom is or if my dogs have been fed. The average human has 2,000 thoughts a day. The really accomplished have 1,500 because you can focus longer. I need to learn how to focus longer.”

“Before an individual can be saved, he must first learn that he cannot save himself.”

Firsts Individual Religious Learning Individuality Saved Pastor

Author:M. R. DeHaan

“At first I hoped that such a technically unsound project would collapse but I soon realized it was doomed to success. Almost anything in software can be implemented, sold, and even used given enough determination. There is nothing a mere scientist can say that will stand against the flood of a hundred million dollars. But there is one quality that cannot be purchased in this way - and that is reliability. The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity. It is a price which the very rich find most hard to pay.”

“Recognizing your own ignorance is the first step toward wisdom.”

Firsts Steps Learning Ignorance First Steps Recognizing

Author:Laurence Overmire

“. . . the great thing to learn about life is, first, not to do what you don't want to do, and, second, to do what you do want to do.”

Want Life Firsts Life Is Learning Great Things

Author:Margaret Caroline Anderson