Children Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“True learning happens when books and friends, writing and understanding intermingle in a rich soup of participation.”

— R. David Lankes

“a good education is a synthesis of book learning and involvement in social action, because each enrich the other. The accumulation of knowledge, while…

— Howard Zinn

Might not hurt you to pick up a book, just as an experiment." Whatever. I looked up the definition for 'nerd' in the dictionary.…

— Brandon Mull

One learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.

— Frank Herbert

“The most crucial problem with intellectual learning is that it receives the unknown on the grounds of the known.”

— Raheel Farooq

Although I went to college as a youth, I never considered it necessary to steep oneself in academic learning, in order to learn how…

— Luther Burbank

I'm a nerd; I enjoy educating myself and learning things.

— Mehcad Brooks

“learning, in the complex sense in which it happens in schools or the real world, is not a rational or disembodied process; neither is…

— Mary Helen Immordino-Yang

“The most dangerous thing about an academic education is that it enables my tendency to over-intellectualize stuff, to get lost in abstract thinking instead…

— David Foster Wallace

“The most dangerous thing about an academic education is that it enables my tendency to over-intellectualize stuff, to get lost in abstract thinking instead…

— David Foster Wallace

“But one learns from books and reels only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.”

— Frank Herbert

We must not think of learning as only what happens in schools. It is an extended part of life. The most readily available resource…

— David McCullough