#learnin

The British system had requirements, including Latin. I'm not positive you ever had to know Greek, but there are certainly kinds of curricula where you had to know Greek too. I think in Britain there was the most mindless, repetitive sort of learning. ↗

— William Scott

#british #certainly #ever #greek #had

Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain. ↗

— Aristotle

#play

I'm writing a book and working on my one-woman show, Learning To Be Human. ↗

— Shirley Knight

#human #i #learning #one-woman #show

All are agreed, that the increase of learning and good morals are great blessings to society. ↗

— Joseph Lancaster

#blessings #good #great #increase #learning

Education is the process of turning cocksure ignorance into thoughtful uncertainty. ↗

— K. G. Johnson

#ignorance #learning #education

It’s very simple. As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed at twenty-two, you’d always be as ignorant as you were at twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It’s growth. It’s more than the negative that you’re going to die, it’s also the positive that you understand you’re going to die, and that you live a better life because of it. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#dying #growth #ignorance #learning #life

Basketball, in America, is like a culture. It is like a foreigner learning a new language. It is difficult to learn foreign languages and it will also be difficult for me to learn the culture for basketball here. ↗

— Yao Ming

#america #basketball #culture #difficult #foreign

I had an acting coach while I was doing the show and every week I could see my work improving. I really liked working on the show because I was learning new things every day. ↗

— Dannii Minogue

#because #coach #could #day #doing

The trick in life is learning how to deal with it. ↗

— Helen Mirren

#how #learning #life #trick

The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty. ↗

— Pablo Neruda

#book #books #comes #deep #easy