Quotes About Self Directed Learning

#1. I wanted to be a writer and an artist. Learning to type as quickly as I could think was a needed skill and part of my long self-directed apprenticeship. - Author: Jeffrey Zeldman

#2. Traveling is a fool's paradise. - Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson

#3. The assumption of all education is that learning will be directed toward constructive ends and I'm convinced that colleges should support students in their determination to be useful, self-sufficient, and productive. - Author: Ernest L. Boyer

#4. The teaching must, of course, work with the best part of the individual, must be directed to his or her real capacity. - Author: Idries Shah

#5. There is a scene in it. The hero and heroine make love. Do you know about that? - Author: E. M. Forster

#6. The beginning [of a journey] is a terrible time to plan. It's the moment of greatest ignorance. In self-directed education, a lot of the value comes from exploiting opportunities that arise well out to sea, once I've seen some things and begun the learning process. - Author: James Marcus Bach

#7. Names are the just the layer on top. You peel it off and there is the real you beneath. Have you ever seen the real you? Have you ever tried to? - Author: Cameron Jace

#8. You can't touch the rain behind the windows! You can't touch the life behind the cowardice because cowardice is the greatest obstacle between you and the life! - Author: Mehmet Murat Ildan

#9. New Zealand are the best team in the world - the execution and accuracy of their skills were a lesson in modern rugby. - Author: Josh Lewsey

#10. Even nowadays a man can't step up and kill a woman without feeling just a bit unchivalrous. - Author: Robert Benchley

#11. I could see it. I could almost feel it. When I proclaimed that I was the greatest of all time, I believed in myself, and I still do. - Author: Muhammad Ali

#12. We have forgotten that children are designed by nature to learn through self-directed play and exploration, and so, more and more, we deprive them of freedom to learn, subjecting them instead to the tedious and painfully slow learning methods devised by those who run the schools. - Author: Peter Gray

#13. In that moment, we knew that we were all weird, all in this together, and that addressing our own suffering, while learning not to inflict it on others, is part of the work we're all here to do. So is love, which comes in so many forms and can be directed at so many things. - Author: Rebecca Solnit

#14. True wisdom consists of tracing effects to their causes. - Author: Oliver Goldsmith

#15. The rigorous process of learning to develop and ask questions offers students the invaluable opportunity to become independent thinkers and self-directed learners. - Author: Dan Rothstein

#16. We play at the world's most beautiful beaches but in the world's most challenging conditions. It is not like you play one match and you go back to air conditioning. We do it all day long. - Author: Karch Kiraly

#17. memory is primarily an imaginative process. In fact, learning, memory, and creativity are the same fundamental process directed with a different focus," says Buzan. "The art and science of memory is about developing the capacity to quickly create images that link disparate ideas. - Author: Joshua Foer

#18. With only a little imagination we can see the gene as sitting at the centre of a radiating web of extended phenotypic power. - Author: Richard Dawkins

#19. The raising of animals for food and all that it entails is the single most destructive force impacting our planet's fragile ecosystems. Our planet simply cannot sustain the greed of billions of human beings who are eating other animals. - Author: Sharon Gannon

#20. Our forefathers used to live longer and healthy lives. - Author: Yahya Jammeh