Superficial Learning Quotes

#1. As students cross the threshold from outside to insider, they also cross the threshold from superficial learning motivated by grades to deep learning motivated by engagement with questions. Their transformation entails an awakening
even, perhaps, a falling in love.

John C. Bean

#2. I am very interested in Ayurvedic medicine and hope to explore it more someday. I only have a very superficial understanding of the whole thing right now. But learning what my body type is has shifted my whole self-care regime a bit, and I feel better because of it.

Taylor Schilling

#3. Well, the hardest thing about being a parent is recalibration. The better you are at it, the better you will be." At

Hanya Yanagihara

#4. Writing is the starting point from which all goodness (and crappiness) flows.

Guy Kawasaki

#5. The secret of achieving prosperity lies in so vividly keeping yourself centered in the inner focus of affluence that you literally exude the consciousness of it.

Eric Butterworth

#6. Index-learning turns no student pale,
Yet holds the eel of Science by the tail.
Index-learning is a term used to mock pretenders who acquire superficial knowledge merely by consulting indexes.

Alexander Pope

#7. I wish to be a martyr, and I don't fear death.

Muqtada Al Sadr

#8. There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow.

Alfred Adler

#9. A winner has more skills than a loser," Vor said, "no matter how you define the competition.

Brian Herbert

#10. You can spare yourself discomfort by keeping your distance, by remaining safely aloof, by maintaining what are largely superficial friendships. But if you do, you will deprive yourselves, and others, of one of the greatest opportunities for learning and for personal growth. - William Bowen

Peter Slevin

#11. The best way to know God's will is to be familiar with the Bible.

Pat Robertson

#12. All great acquisitions come from voluntary thought" was Elizabeth's guiding principle. She would not cultivate any motive for learning in her students besides curiosity, claiming that study for the sake of reward or in fear of punishment produced "superficial rather than profound" knowledge.

Megan Marshall