Learners Quotes · Page 4

The most important single factor influencing learning is what the learner already knows. Ascertain this and teach him accordingly.

— David Ausubel

I don't divide the world into the weak and the strong, or the successes and failures...I divide the world into the learners…

— Benjamin Barber

Learning of all kinds goes on best, lasts best, and tends to lead itself on more when it grows out of a…

— Carl Rogers

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and that the true teacher is a learner.

— Elbert Hubbard

If learners do not have a roof under which they can learn we are already setting them up for failure.

— Zozibini Tunzi

Mistakes are expensive. Mistakes are good, because we can learn from them. I must be a slow learner because I repeat most…

— Linda Greenlaw

Learners having character, conviction and commitment are on their way to leadership.

— Tasneem Hameed

The question to ask is not whether you are a success or a failure, but whether you are a learner or a…

— Benjamin Barber

What our world most requires now is the kind of education that foster love for humankind, that develops character-that provides an intellectual…

— Daisaku Ikeda

I believe that teaching is a creative art in which evidence based knowledge is applied toward meeting the learning goals of learners.…

— Barbara Paterson

I have seen schools across the country working long and hard to embed a commitment to the unlimited development of every student…

— Carol S. Dweck

Sometimes the last thing learners need is for their preferred learning style to be affirmed. Agreeing to let people learn only in…

— Stephen Brookfield

“If we are developing students to be creative, flexible, independent learners, then we cannot scrub away opportunities for mistakes to be made…

— Christopher Lehman

Life's opportunities never end. God designed you to be a continual learner, a continual doer, a continual explorer and a continual giver.…

— Paula White

“The rigorous process of learning to develop and ask questions offers students the invaluable opportunity to become independent thinkers and self-directed learners.”

— Dan Rothstein

. . . learning never ends, and as we enter the next century, it will be more and more important for all…

— Barbara Bush

There is, I think, no point in the philosophy of progressive education which is sounder than its emphasis upon the importance of…

— John Dewey

Working as a correspondent for 'Business Week,' I felt that I was simply informing people, not empowering them. I saw a parallel…

— Mitchel Resnick

I was in school - I was a good learner; if I wanted to get something done, I could get it done.…

— Afrojack

It is part of the educator's responsibility to see equally to two things: First, that the problem grows out of the conditions…

— John Dewey

Then let every one of us, being warned by this sentence of the angel, acknowledge that he as yet cleaves to first…

— John Calvin

Just as we're all students throughout life, we're all teachers. In fact, we learn best by offering what we desire for ourselves…

— Wayne Dyer

One of the major challenges facing creative individuals is that of building upon the continuity of human knowledge while achieving novel insights.…

— Vera John-Steiner

... there are moments in which the teacher, as the authority talks to the learners, says what must be done, establishes limits…

— Paulo Freire

Either you came in here a swimmer or you'd better be a really fast learner

— Suzanne Collins

The best leaders are the best notetakers, best askers, and best learners.

— Tom Peters

Learning should take place when it is needed, when the learner is interested, not according to some arbitrary, fixed schedule

— Donald A. Norman

When I was learned, knowledge was everything. Now that I'm a learner, kindness is everything.

— Leonard Sweet

Eve was not a born know-all. She was ignorant. But she was a good learner.

— Geoffrey Sampson

The danger of lectures is that they create the illusion of teaching for teachers, and the illusion of learning for learners.

— Albert Camus

I hire talented, creative, passionate learners who have a history of turning intention into reality.

— Jeff Henderson

We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm a fast learner. I may not run as fast as I used to, but I think I still learn as fast.

— Carl Lewis

Two key ingredients in any successful chef: a quick learner and someone with a sharp brain.

— Gordon Ramsay

I guess through my learning disability, through dyslexia, I've always been a visual learner - I take in everything through my eyes.

— Scoot McNairy

Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.

— Jonathan Edwards

Students become good learners when they are in the classes of teachers who are good learners.

— Andy Hargreaves

“Our troubles begin the moment our teachers believe they know it all, and our learners think they are not teachable.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Teachers craft classrooms that are good matches for their teaching styles as well as for learner needs.

— Carol Ann Tomlinson