Desire To Learn Quotes - Page 2

• A Student is the most important person ever in this school...in person, on the telephone, or by mail.
  A Student is not dependent on us...we are dependent on the Student.
  A Student is not an interruption of our work..the Studenti s the purpose of it. We are not doing a favor by serving the Student...the Student is doing us a favor by giving us the opportunity to do so.
  A Student is a person who brings us his or her desire to learn. It is our job to handle each Student in a manner which is beneficial to the Student and ourselves.

  William Watson Purkey

  Education, Jobs, School

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• NVC is interested in learning that is motivated by reverence for life, by a desire to learn skills, to contribute better to our own well-being and the well-being of others.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Skills, Desire

  Marshall B. Rosenberg (2004). “Teaching Children Compassionately: How Students and Teachers Can Succeed with Mutual Understanding”, p.25, PuddleDancer Press

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• Some of my educated Filipino friends were aspiring poets, but their aspirations were all in the direction of the United States. They had no desire to learn from the bardic tradition that continued in the barrios. Their ideal would have been to write something that would get them to Iowa, where they would study creative writing.

  James Fenton

  Writing, Iowa, Creative

  "Where poetry and music divide" by James Fenton, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2002.

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• We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us..... The old "manifest destiny" idea ought to be modified so that each nation has the manifest destiny to do the best it can - and that without cant, without the assumption of self-righteousness and with a desire to learn to the uttermost from other nations.

  Francis John McConnell

  Destiny, Self, Ideas

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• The journey from not knowing to knowing was his work. He was selling his desire to learn about a subject.

  Richard Saul Wurman

  Journey, Knowing, Desire

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• Upon this first, and in one sense this sole, rule of reason, that in order to learn you must desire to learn, and in so desiring not be satisfied with what you already incline to think, there follows one corollary which itself deserves to be inscribed upon every wall of the city of philosophy: Do not block the way of inquiry.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Wall, Block, Philosophy

  Charles Sanders Peirce, Nathan Houser (1998). “The Essential Peirce: Selected Philosophical Writings”, p.48, Indiana University Press

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• To be reverent is not just to be quiet. It involves an awareness of what is taking place. It involves a divine desire to learn and to be receptive to the promptings of the Spirit. It involves a striving to seek added light and knowledge.

  L. Lionel Kendrick

  Light, Desire, Spirit

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• A classical work doesn't ever have to be understood entirely. But those who are educated and who are still educating themselves must desire to learn more and more from it.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Desire, Literature, Classic

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