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[M]y husband, Nick, tells a story of when he was a teenager riding his bike with his friends, and his chain came off his bike. Nick took the bike to his dad, who said, “I'll fix it, you watch”. Hi...

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...

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...

The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called ‘truth.’

“We learn from failure, not from success!”

Change is the end result of all true learning.

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

I begin with humility, I act with humility, I end with humility. Humility leads to clarity. Humility leads to an open mind and a forgiving heart. With an open mind and a forgiving heart, I see every p...

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.

Faith does not grow in spite of suffering, but through suffering, when hope learns to contradict reality.

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

"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go."

Becoming a teachable person has two prerequisites: There must be a teacher and a person willing to be taught. Increasingly, Western culture has become an environment that celebrates and platforms the ...

One of the reasons failure can be so crushing is that we set goals of success, instead of improvement and learning.

Wonder is the desire for knowledge.

The point of discourse is to learn with and from one another. I used to tell my students that at least 20 percent of what I was telling them was wrong, but I didn't know which 20 percent it was: I...

“I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.”

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

The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.

Today is Yesterday's Pupil.

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...

When schools flourish, all flourishes.

When people fail, we are inclined to find fault with them, but if you look more closely, you will find that God had some particular truth for them to learn, which the trouble they are in is to teach t...

I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.

If a mistake is not a stepping stone, it is a mistake.

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

Receiving feedback sits at the intersection of these two needs—our drive to learn and our longing for acceptance.

Rabbi Jesus, Teacher of teachers, thank you for empowering us to know and grow in wisdom and truth. You challenge us and stretch us and open us. You grant us grace to grow over time. We bless you for ...

He who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

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...