learning on Conservation

The St. Francis Satyr is a tiny butterfly on the endangered species list. This butterfly only lives on the Fort Bragg military base in North Carolina. Before heavy conservation efforts took place, the...

Change is the end result of all true learning.

* This story is debated among Galileo scholars, though most would agree that the story conveys Galileo’s unique approach to learning. Galileo Galilei was a man who dared to look beyond what othe...

Repetitio mater studiorum est. (Repetition is the mother of learning.)

The bottom line is this: never grow complacent. Never grow tired of learning. As soon as we stop learning we lose the capacity to grow and mature in our work and our relationships. This continual lear...

There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring.

If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly t...

We learn to live by living together with others, and by living like them—a process which has disadvantages as well as blessings.

Such an intellectualist model of the human person-one that reduces us to mere intellect-assumes that learning (and hence discipleship) is primarily a matter of depositing ideas and beliefs into mind-c...

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.

Wonder is the desire for knowledge.

Perhaps the history of the errors of mankind, all things considered, is more valuable and interesting than that of their discoveries. Truth is uniform and narrow; it constantly exists, and does not se...

All men by nature desire knowledge.

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.

Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.

Cross-bearing is the long lesson of our mortal life. It is a part of God’s salvation, called sanctification. It is a lesson set before us every moment of every day.” “If life were an art lesson…we cou...

Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it.

We cannot afford to forget any experience, not even the most painful.

John Dryden (1631–1700), an English critic and poet laureate, often skipped classes at Westminster School in London and rarely prepared his lessons. One day, when tasked with writing a poem on the gos...

Peter Drucker suggests that we should always sustain two streams of learning and self-improvement. And though he is speaking specifically about work and career, what he says is equally applicable whet...

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it—and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid aga...

Ancora imparo. Yet I am still learning.

He who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

Whether playing baseball or basketball, one of the first sports lessons kids are taught is the counterintuitive truth that focusing too much on aiming where you want for the ball to go is likely to ba...

Beware you are not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.

When schools flourish, all flourishes.

Gracious Lord, like Nicodemus, we come to the word with many questions. Like the Pharisees, we can be captivated by correctness, intent on right answers. As we turn to your word, Spirit of God, do not...