The secret of Sufism is that it has no secret at all'.
Historically, I come from Jewish history. I had the classic upbringing in the Yeshiva, learning, learning, and more learning.
Basketball, in America, is like a culture. It is like a foreigner learning a new language. It is difficult to learn foreign languages and it will also be difficult for me to learn the culture for basketball here.
I learned about machinery, I learned how men behaved under pressure, and I learned about Americans.
In Paris, you learn wit, in London you learn to crush your social rivals, and in Florence you learn poise.
I've failed in communication...and so I've learned to have open and honest dialogue at the opportune, and appropriate time. I've failed in relationships...and so I've learned to appreciate the people in my life, and to treat them with kindness. I've ...
The rich man plans for tomorrow, the poor man for today.
A young man should not marry yet, an old man not at all.
This is the new paradigm. Everything is changing! You cannot deny that the world is changing at such a fast pace and that what the children learn this year is already becoming outdated next year. The children who are allowed freedom to pursue their o...
When I look at a child, I see a living, breathing person, made in God's image, for whom God has a plan. As parent educators, we need to embrace a new notion of learning...we need to engage the hearten order to effectively educate the child. Our visio...
The suggestion that the normal human brain has an almost infinite capacity is important: it means that almost everyone is educable. Given enough time and the right opportunities, everyone can learn anything. It is a sad commentary on the training and...
Formal learning is like riding a bus: the driver decides where the bus is going; the passengers are along for the ride. Informal learning is like riding a bike: the rider chooses the destination, the speed, and the route.
Assessment in this spirit does not concern assignment of grades or evaluation of whether instruction was effective. It's assessment designed squarely to feed into the learning process and make the learning stronger.
You can learn more in half an hour's direct contact with a source of knowledge (no matter the apparent reason for the contact or the subject of the transaction) than you can in years of formal effort.
Once, it was possible to learn things, and to be shaped by your learning, he says. Once, to be a student meant to be by what you learned. To let it enter your soul. But today? We're drowning in openness, he says. In our sense of the possible. We're r...
Nobody's going to break down walls for you; you have to break them down yourself. Nobody's inviting anyone into this game. 'Oh, come in, it's a game that you should play.' It's a game that you have to break into. And it's not a game that you can go l...
A hungry man is an angry man.
When death comes, the rich man has no money and the poor man no debt.
Rather be a slave to a rich man than the spouse of a poor man.
An old man telling lies is like a rich man stealing.
There are no national frontiers to learning.
