“I was a terrible history student. They taught me history as if it were a visit to a wax museum or to the land of the dead. I was over twenty before I discovered that the past was neither quiet nor mute.” IfsPastEducationLandStudentsTaughtTerribleQuietTwentiesMuseumsMute Author:Eduardo Galeano
“I deny that art can be taught, or, in other words, maintain that art is completely individual, and that the talent of each artist is but the result of his own inspiration and his own study of past tradition.” ArtInspirationPastArtistIndividualResultsEducationStudyTalentTaughtArt IsTraditionDeny Author:Gustave Courbet
“Judo taught me that I am capable of anything... I can mentally push past anything and be victorious.” I CanPastTaughtCapableMmaJudo Author:Ronda Rousey
“The quicker we all realize that we've been taught how to live life by people that were operating on the momentum of an ignorant past the quicker we can move to a global ethic of community that doesn't value invented borders or the monopolization of natural resources, but rather the goal of a happier more loving humanity.” PeoplePastMovingValuesHumanityGoalRealizingCommunityNaturalTaughtEthicsResourcesIgnorantLive LifeBordersMmaMomentumNatural ResourcesHow To Live Life Author:Joe Rogan
“When I was a student at Cambridge I remember an anthropology professor holding up a picture of a bone with 28 incisions carved in it. "This is often considered to be man's first attempt at a calendar" she explained. She paused as we dutifully wrote this down. 'My question to you is this - what man needs to mark 28 days? I would suggest to you that this is woman's first attempt at a calendar. It was a moment that changed my life. In that second I stopped to question almost everything I had been taught about the past. How often had I overlooked women's contributions?” MenNeedsFirstsHumansMomentsPastRememberWomenChangedStudentsTaughtMarkFeministBonesContributionProfessorsAttemptingAnthropologyCalendarsChanged My LifeOverlookedCambridgeCarvingContribution To Society28 Days Author:Sandi Toksvig
“I discovered that our clan included loads of cousins and uncles and aunts and animals of every shape. I was taught that chaos and competition were family values. And I learned that we all loved the sea. Somehow, the sea was about us-our past, our exuberance, our frailty, our longing.” PastValuesAnimalSeaTaughtShapesLongingCompetitionChaosLoadOur PastUnclesCousinAuntFrailtyFamily ValuesClansExuberance Author:Timothy Shriver
“If there is one thing the past years have taught us, it is the importance of a keen and high sense of honor in those who handle our governmental affairs.” IfsYearsGovernmentPastOne ThingTaughtHonorEthicsImportanceAffairHandleTaught Us Book:Speaking up Source: Speaking up
“The lessons of the past suggest that racism and resentment against people of color will continue to flourish in America as long as the history that is taught transposes the heroes and the villains. That is the unspoken truth at the heart of the nation's racial divide.” PeopleHeartLongAmericaPastNationsHistoryTaughtColorHeroLessonsRacismDividesVillainResentmentUnspokenLessons Of The Past Book:Lessons in Living Source: Lessons in Living
“It's guilty of the very thing that makes kids hate history as a subject when it's taught badly: The Da Vinci Code makes the past feel like a dull, grainy, faraway thing, instead of something vibrant and alive.” FeelsKidsPastHateAliveSubjectsTaughtGuiltyCodeDullDa Vinci Code Author:Stephanie Zacharek
“If it had taught them nothing else, twenty years of living past high school had taught them self-preservation. ... No one was going to risk putting his ego on the line; they would come prepared with dates, flattering clothes, and a well-rehearsed, carefully edited biography. They would all be kind to each other. High school was enough torture for one lifetime.” IfsYearsWellsKindSelfEnoughSchoolPastLinesRiskTaughtEgoClothesHigh SchoolTwentiesPreparedLifetimeTortureBe KindBiographiesPreservationFlatteringSelf PreservationEdited Author:Sharyn McCrumb
“I learned one thing from De Niro: He taught me to listen. Nobody says anything strictly from the script. It's improvised. It was the best piece of advice I have ever gotten in my life. It has helped me through the past thirty years.” YearsPastPiecesOne ThingAdviceTaughtScriptsThirtySay AnythingThirty YearsDe Niro Author:Cathy Moriarty
“Life's so brief,” she goes on. “We're, at every juncture, staring mortality in the face. It's the very least we can do if we think it will be of any interest or value, to share the past. And although mine's been crooked, it's also been splendid. It's taught me to be vulnerable and humble, to write this book.” IfsThinkingWritingBookPastFacesValuesInterestCan DoShareMinesTaughtGoes OnHumbleVulnerableStaringMortalitySplendidCrookedJuncture Author:Kate Mulgrew
“The whole enterprise of teaching managers is steeped in the ethic of data-driven analytical support. The problem is, the data is only available about the past. So the way weve taught managers to make decisions and consultants to analyze problems condemns them to taking action when its too late.” WayWholeProblemActionPastDecisionSupportTeachingTaughtLateEthicsAvailableDrivenManagersDataEnterpriseToo LateTaking ActionConsultants Author:Clayton Christensen