Learning Barriers Quotes

The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow- witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him.

Most men are unwilling to be taught.

To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without plowing it.

I have discovered few learning disabled students in my three decades of teaching. I have, however, discovered many, many victims of teaching inabilities.

One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human. One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.

Women's property has been taxed, equally with that of men's, to sustain colleges endowed by the states; but they have not been permitted to enter those high seminaries of learning.

Imagine trying to learn without a dry place to sleep, eat, and do homework. Children cannot succeed in school if their lives out of school are in total chaos.

When a child shows up for school, and is not physically and mentally ready to learn, he or she never catches up.

Children are coming to school with trauma, everyday trauma, that they live under: violence in the homes, alcoholism in the community, unemployment that's 80 percent, not just during the recession. We need to help treat that before they can even go sit in a class and learn about math.

There should be no obstacles to accessing knowledge.

Many children struggle in schools... because the way they are being taught is incompatible with the way they learn.

There is a reason you don’t know all the things I know. -Marcus Eaton

The way we make history exciting to learn about is by breaking down the barriers that are already set up between these people.

Children certainly can't learn if they're dealing with trauma or mental illness.

Most young kids can't figure out how to shoot.

One cannot learn from someone whom one distrusts.

I've known for years that the university underserved the community, because we assumed that university education is for 18- to 22-year-olds, which is a proposition that's so absurd it is absolutely mind-boggling that anyone ever conceptualized it. Why wouldn't you take university courses throughout your entire life?

If children are hungry, they need to be fed. It's hard to learn if your stomach is growling. We need to take that on. If students can't see the blackboard, need eyeglasses, we need to do that. If students need a social worker or counselor to work through the challenges they're facing at home in the community, we need to do that.

Across the globe, disadvantaged children are not living up to their potential because if they attend school at all, the schools are usually not designed to meet their extra needs.

Am I missing something because of my lack of education? Being an intellectual - I'm not. So I hire him as a corner man, like a boxer; he watches me and tells me what I do wrong before I go in for the next round. Barry thought he was going to write what became Executioner's Song, and I told him he wasn't going to. And Barry's closest friend was Joan Didion.

It is difficult to thinkof any circumstances where learning may be said to be impossible.

There is a cultural disconnect from learning which racism has saddled Black America with.

Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I'm not interested in, I can't even feign interest.

Poverty is so significant that we can't expect to overcome the impacts of poverty in schools.

Students come to school hungry, and that affects how they study and read and prepare.