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“Science ... must be absorbed in order to inculcate that wonderful humility before the facts of nature that comes from close attention to a textbook, and that unwillingness to learn from Authority that comes from making almost verbatim lecture notes and handing them back to the professor.”

Facts Science Order Attention Learning Wonderful Humility Authority Accounts Notes Professors Lectures Textbooks

Book:Science is a sacred cow

Source: Science is a sacred cow

“It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - up to fifty words used in correct context - no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.”

Humans Has Beens Motivational Used Universe Interest Human Beings Animal Learning Human Nature Humility Notes Fifty Ironic Dolphins

Author:Carl Sagan

“All subjects are the same. I memorize notes for a test, spew it, ace it, then forget it. What makes this scary for the future of our country is that I'm in the tip-top percentile on every standardized test. I'm a model student with a very crappy attitude about learning.”

Country Forget Attitude Learning Subjects Students Models Tests Notes Scary Our Country Forget It Aces

Book:The Complete Jessica Darling Series: Sloppy Firsts, Second Helpings, Charmed Thirds, Fourth Comings, Perfect Fifths

Source: The Complete Jessica Darling Series: Sloppy Firsts, Second Helpings, Charmed Thirds, Fourth Comings, Perfect Fifths

“It is more important to keep the horse going hard than to always play the exact notes.”

Important Hard Play Learning Horse Notes Go Hard

Author:Charles Ives

“A person who can create ideas worthy of note is a person who has learned much from others.”

Persons Ideas Learning Notes Worthy Creative Thinking Creative Ideas Brainstorming Ideas And Creativity Lateral Thinking

Author:Konosuke Matsushita

“Progressive white teachers seem to say to their black students 'Let me help you find your voice. I promise not to criticize one note as you search for your song'. But the black teachers say 'I've heard your song loud and clear. Now I want to teach you to harmonize with the rest of the world.”

Source: Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom

“If they think they are doing something new, they ought to do what I do every day - spend at least two hours every day listening to Johann Sebastian Bach and, man, it's all there. If they want to improvise around a theme,which is the essence of jazz, they should learn from the master. He never wastes a note, and he knows where every note is going and when to bring it back. Some of these cats go way out and forget where they began or what they started to do. Bach will clear it up for them.”

“Might I give counsel to any man, I would say to him, try to frequent the company of your betters. In books and in life, that is the most wholesome society; learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what great men admire.”

Men Life Giving Trying Book Might Life Is Leadership Pleasure Company Learning Greatness Notes Admire Great Men Admiration Pleasures Of Life

Book:The four Georges. The English humorists. Roundabout papers

Source: The four Georges. The English humorists. Roundabout papers

“I can only think that the book is read because it deals with the difficulties of schooling, which do not change. Please note: the difficulties, not the problems. Problems are solved or disappear with the revolving times. Difficulities remain. It will always be difficult to teach well, to learn accurately; to read, write, and count readily and competently; to acquire a sense of history and start one's education or anothers.”

“Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild.”

Ifs Wells Children Dream Learning Stage Poet Summer Sight Notes Woods Streams Fancy Native Sweetest Sock Anon Pageantry Revelry

Author:John Milton

“Lecture is the transfer of the notes of the lecturer to the notes of the student without passing through either.”

Knowledge Learning Students Management Notes Passing Passings Lectures Transfers Lecturer Passing Through

Author:Eric Mazur