When someone is taught the joy of learning, it becomes a life-long process that never stops, a process that creates a logical individual. That is the challenge and joy of teaching.
— Marva Collins
Romantic Joy Of Learning quotations
I don't study to know more, but to ignore less.
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
And the world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles, no matter how long, but only by a spiritual journey, a journey of one inch, very arduous and humbling and joyful, by which we arrive at the ground at our own feet, and learn to be at home.
I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
Reading is important, because if you can read, you can learn anything about everything and everything about anything.
The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running.
Life can give everything to whoever tries to understand and is willing to receive new knowledge.
The first object of any act of learning, over and beyond the pleasure it may give, is that it should serve us in the future. Learning should not only take us somewhere; it should allow us later to go further more easily.
We need to create schools that are organized to meet the needs of the kids they serve instead of what we've been doing. We expect kids to adjust to the schools and if they can't, we say something is wrong with the child - instead of focusing on engagement and nurturing the love of learning in kids.
Walk so that your footprints bear only the marks of peaceful joy and complete freedom. To do this you have to learn to let go. Let go of your sorrows, let go of your worries. That is the secret of walking meditation.
I’ve learned what ‘classical’ means.
It means something that sings and dances through sheer joy of existence.
Banish, therefore, from thy heart the distractions of earth and turn thine eyes to spiritual joys, that thou mayest learn at last to repose in the light of the contemplation of God.
Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.
I prefer to learn everything through music.
If you want divinity, the music in every human being and their love for music is pretty much it. It's the big indication of their spirituality and their ability to love and make love, or feel pain or joy, and really manifest it, really be real.
Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.
The biggest thing that I've learned is to run the marathon, not the sprint.
By that I mean, don't let the little problems that you face in the hour in daily life cast a shadow over the larger joys that you have, over the course of the years.
The ultimate goal of theology isn't knowledge, but worship.
If our learning and knowledge of God do not lead to the joyful praise of God, we have failed. We learn only that we might laud, which is to say that theology without doxology is idolatry. The only theology worth studying is a theology that can be sung!
Why should we need extra time in which to enjoy ourselves? If we expect to enjoy our life, we will have to learn to be joyful in all of it, not just at stated intervals when we can get time or when we have nothing else to do.
Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as hard duty. Never regard study as duty but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.
Without dark clouds in our lives, we would never know the joy of sunshine.
We can become callous and unteachable if we do not learn from pain.
When the sun is shining I can do anything;
no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome. Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment. What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
Learning to celebrate joy is one of the great practices of the spiritual life.
The process of setting a goal, learning the necessary steps to achieve it, and giving it your best until you've mastered it will generate high self-esteem and pride. Those are feelings associated with joy.
As runners, we all go through many transitions-- transitions that closely mimic the larger changes we experience in a lifetime. First, we try to run faster. Then we try to run harder. Then we learn to accept ourselves and our limitations, and at last, we can appreciate the true joy and meaning of running.
It's an inside job to learn about forgiving, it's an inside job to hang on to the joy of living.
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
Learning should be a joy and full of excitement.
It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.
All the pathos and irony of leaving one's youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be recovered, and the wise traveller learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.
The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece.
The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.
The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running.
Where it is lacking there are no real students, but only poor caricatures of apprentices who, at the end of their apprenticeship, will not even have a trade.
Not till I was shut up to prayer and to the study of God's word by the loss of earthly joys sickness destroying the flavor of them all did I begin to penetrate the mystery that is learned under the cross. And wondrous as it is, how simple is this mystery! To love Christ, and to know that I love Him this is all.
Joyfully celebrating the killing of a killer who joyfully celebrated killing carries an irony that I hope will not be lost on us. Are we learning anything, or simply spinning harder in the cycle of violence?