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" DonorsChoose was conceived at a Bronx public high school where I taught social studies for five years. In the teachers' lunch room, my colleagues and I often lamented a problem that drained learning from students and creativity from teachers: a lack of funding for essential materials and for the activities that bring subject matter to life. "

Charles Best

Learning

School

Life

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" It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know. "

" I've always loved music, but I never really played anything. After 'Walk the Line' and learning to play guitar, and having that sense of performing, I think that certainly opened the door for me, for music. "

Joaquin Phoenix

Door

Music

" I'm learning, but I'm getting better at it because I'm learning how to hear God in worship. "

" Making a wrong decision is understandable. Refusing to search continually for learning is not. "

Phil Crosby

Learning

Wrong

" We need to make sure we have in every school teachers trained and qualified to make sure every child, including children with different learning styles, succeed. "

" We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique. "

" I love 'Mastermind'. It's touching that people spend so much time learning. I do have quite good general knowledge, but I wouldn't consider going on the show. I also like watching 'Only Connect.' "

" Being a geek is all about learning the inventories of things. "

" In general, for me, a big thing in my life has been just sort of learning what true self-esteem is and what true positive self-image is. And being a dancer, and growing up in that world, you're so focused on yourself, and you're so focused on achieving goals, on finding perfection, and working on your craft. "

" I made shorts films, learning the dos and don'ts. Most importantly, I've been editing all these short films. Nothing can teach you filmmaking like editing can. "

" Life isn't about algebra and geometry. Learning by making mistakes and not duplicating them is what life is about. "

" As you get older, you grow and mature, and that should never stop. As soon as you stop growing, you're done living. I'll always be growing, forever learning, forever taking in advice from people I deeply respect. "

" If you're going to go through hell... I suggest you come back learning something. "

Drew Barrymore

Back

Going

" I am just learning to notice the different colors of the stars, and already begin to have a new enjoyment. "

" But by taking the time away, getting myself off the treadmill, and just slowing down and learning, I felt I had so much more to give back. And maybe that was something that needed to happen for all of us. "

" The only animals I'm not comfortable with are parrots, but I'm learning as I go. I'm getting better and better at 'em. I really am. "

Steve Irwin

Animals

Getting Better

" I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible. "

Manfred von Richthofen

Good

Enough

Opinion

" I have spent an awful lot of time listening to Canadians, learning from them, working with them. "

" The soul is everlasting, and its learning experience is lifetime after lifetime. "

" Learning networking basics is only a gateway to career growth and exploration. "

" In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools. "

" In this life, I've learned to be patient. And I'm still learning... Even now, I wish things would go quicker. "

Benjamin Clementine

Wish

Life

" No, I got a GED in my 30s. My kids know that I never stop learning, and they know I love reading. I have books overflowing everywhere. I am current on today's events and I read the paper every day, and we talk about it, so they see that appetite. "

" The computer is my favourite invention. I feel lucky to be part of the global village. I don't mean to brag, but I'm so fast with technology. People think it all seems too much, but we'll get used to it. I'm sure it all seemed too much when we were learning to walk. "

" I learnt not to be desperate in bad times and am learning not to be bullish when times are good. "

John Elkann

Bad

Bad Times

" We often assume that all teachers within a discipline address the same curriculum. This isn't always the case. We frequently find gaps between goals and what is actually taught, and these gaps can have a lasting impact on a child's learning. "

" The willingness to keep learning is, I think, the most important thing about trying to be good at anything. You never want to stop learning. "

" Machine learning is looking for patterns in data. If you start with racist data, you will end up with even more racist models. This is a real problem. "