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Learning

My teachers helped guide and motivate me but the responsibility of learning was left with me, an approach to learning which was later reinforced by my experiences at Amherst. – Joseph Stiglitz

Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges. – Katharine Fullerton Gerould

One of our key strategies has been to restructure traditional high schools into small learning communities with personalized attention and a range of options. – Thomas Menino

A basic rule of life for reporters is that you should spend your time talking with and learning about people who are not sending you press releases, rather than those who are. – James Fallows

Learning how to fly, for me, was so euphoric. – Hilary Swank

You have to learn and keep learning. – Gil Scott-Heron

Even though Raster Blaster was only a video game, I was learning about designing stuff. I got good at drawing. – Bill Budge

Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture. – Albert J. Nock

Concerning culture as a process, one would say that it means learning a great many things and then forgetting them and the forgetting is as necessary as the learning. – Albert J. Nock

Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture. – Albert J. Nock

There is a learning quality in all of our shows. – Trisha Goddard

The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia. – Tracy Kidder

Since its founding in 1854, Penn State has proven to be a leading institution of higher learning. – Tim Holden

Learning something new is fun. – Alex Trebek

Doing a documentary is about discovering, being open, learning, and following curiosity. – Spike Jonze

I grew up in a time when being a musician and learning to be a musician was actually very wonderful. – Bobby McFerrin

I began learning the sportswriting business very early in life. – Dick Schaap

You made a lot of mistakes, and you wrote a lot of crap. But it was all part of the learning process. – Cynthia Weil

Learning by doing, peer-to-peer teaching, and computer simulation are all part of the same equation. – Nicholas Negroponte

The laptop brings back a more seamless kind of learning. – Nicholas Negroponte