David Hood Quotes

Accepting the key premise that the learner is the primary customer of schooling means others follow naturally. ... The core business of schooling is learning, and the quality of learning experienced by all learners should be the standard against which performance is measured.

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• 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 Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • Work
  • Real
  • Done

• Arab civilizations had been of an abstract nature, moral and intellectual rather than applied; and their lack of public spirit made their excellent private qualities futile. They were fortunate in their epoch: Europe had fallen barbarous; and the memory of Greek and Latin learning was fading from men's minds.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • Men
  • Nature
  • Learning

• If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Experience
  • Giving
  • Faith

• The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.

  

  B. B. King
  • Beautiful
  • You
  • Learning

• Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.

  

  Flora Lewis
  • Different
  • Words
  • Learning

• If you desire ease, forsake learning.

  

  Nagarjuna
  • You
  • Desire
  • Learning

• I enjoy learning about different periods and people, and then taking what's universal about the human condition and seeing where it matches up. No matter where you are, certain things unite everybody.

  

  Laura Linney
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• I don't like books that seem to want to teach me things. Which is not to say that one doesn't learn from books – but you do your own learning in your own way.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Want
  • Way
  • Learning

• I've always known that singing was some sort of calling for me. It comes naturally.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Always
  • Singing
  • Known

• I'm learning to be braver with colorful clothes, even if they're a little wild.

  

  Yuliya Snigir
  • Learning
  • Clothes
  • WIld

• I think a part of me thought that I might be interested in academia because I really do love school. I mean that on all levels - I like educational environments; I like being part of that community of learning and exploration. And I like to talk.

  

  K. Flay
  • Community
  • Learning
  • Like

• Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes,And pause a while from learning to be wise.There mark what ills the scholar's life assail - Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • World
  • Eyes

• The learning of the gentleman enters through his ears, fastens to his heart, spreads through his four limbs, and manifests itself in his actions. ... The learning of the petty person enters through his ears and passes out his mouth. From mouth to ears is only four inches—how could it be enough to improve a whole body much larger than that?

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Heart
  • Learning
  • Gentleman

• 'I think the art of filmmaking is something you learn through actions, by doing it, not by learning theories. And as you do it, your mind starts to change.'

  

  Alejandro Jodorowsky
  • Mind
  • Art
  • Learning

• 117: It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and, learning to be self-critical?

  

  Alan Perlis
  • Children
  • Fun
  • Education

• I enjoy learning technical details.

  

  Ken Follett
  • Learning

• The fundamentals of baseball haven't changed, but how we can teach those fundamentals has. With an e-book, learning can be more rewarding and fun.

  

  Dusty Baker
  • Book
  • Fun
  • Learning

• I've always been an avid reader. If I don't have a book in the car, I'll stop and pick one up just to have something to read. I don't even remember learning to read.

  

  Janis Ian
  • Up
  • Book
  • Remember

• From the very beginning, Europe has been not only a success story but also a story of success achieved by learning.

  

  Jean-Claude Juncker
  • Success
  • Learning
  • Beginning

• Surveys of thousands of gamers have shown that they're more likely to play real music if they play a music videogame. So it's an interesting relationship where the games aren't replacing something we do in real life, they're serving as a springboard to a goal we might have in real life, like learning to play an instrument.

  

  Jane McGonigal
  • Life
  • Music
  • Real

• She thought about him all the time - not so much about Doug the individual, but rather about the nature of love, and the shock of learning how quickly it could disappear.

  

  J. Courtney Sullivan
  • Time
  • She
  • Nature

• We have a rock audience, classical audience, metal, pop - everything. We unite them all.

  

  Stjepan Hauser 2Cellos
  • Rock
  • Audience
  • Unite

• While the public school rewards failure by throwing more government money at failing school systems, the voucher system does the opposite.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • School
  • Money
  • Failure

• Accepting the key premise that the learner is the primary customer of schooling means others follow naturally. ... The core business of schooling is learning, and the quality of learning experienced by all learners should be the standard against which performance is measured.

  

  David Hood
  • Learning
  • Accepting
  • Experienced