In the real world, babysitting is a groovy way for young people to learn responsibility (and earn a little pocket money). In the Terrorverse, it's a plot device used to kill teenagers.

I should have learned this, she thought. I wanted to learn fire, and pain, but I should have learned people.

“I should have learned this, she thought. I wanted to learn fire, and pain, but I should have learned people.”

Adults often assume that most learning is the result of teaching and that exploratory, spontaneous learning is unusual. But actually, spontaneous learning is more fundamental.

Learning to learn is to know how to navigate in a forest of facts ideas and theories a proliferation of constantly changing items of knowledge. Learning to learn is to know what to ignore but at the same time not rejecting innovation and research.

He learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult.

I turned into a monk when my mother went to learn Buddhism in Burma. While she learnt at the monastery, I used to roam around with a begging bowl and ask for food.

You don't learn from successes you don't learn from awards you don't learn from celebrity you only learn from wounds and scars and mistakes and failures. And that's the truth.

“First you learn to drive fast. Next, you learn to drive fast in traffic. Then, you learn how to do it for 500 miles.”

“One must learn how to lose before learning how to play.”