Learning Behavior Quotes

Even today, I am easily distracted by reading material and will pick up articles on virtually any factual material if I have the time.

It is the true nature of mankind to learn from mistakes, not from example.

If you accept learning as a dominant determination of your behavior, then all of a sudden you're open to the idea that, for instance, there are other people who are more educated than you about the environment, who you will learn from. It's kind of like you don't even have to believe that you know anything about the environment, but you do have to understand that your behavior has been determined by learning in the past.

Children learn much more from how you act than from what you tell them. There are times this worries me - we parents are rarely the role models we want to be. True for life. True for driving.

[Children] receive direct instruction from time to time about the appropriateness of various social comparisons

The non-fiction bestseller lists frequently prove that we all want to know more about everything, even if we didn't know that we wanted to know - we're just waiting for the right person to come along and tell us about it.

Even brute beasts and wandering birds do not fall into the same traps or nets twice.

Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they're going to respect Mom.

Millennials, and the generations that follow, are shaping technology. This generation has grown up with computing in the palm of their hands. They are more socially and globally connected through mobile Internet devices than any prior generation. And they don't question; they just learn.

My parents used to call me 'The Little Frog,' because whenever they asked how I knew something, I'd say 'read it,' which sounds a bit like a frog croak.

I've always been interested, since graduate school, in why some children wilt and shrink back from challenges and give up in the face of obstacles, while others avidly seek challenges and become even more invested in the face of obstacles. So this has been my primary question for over 40 years.

Every procedure for getting a cat to take a pill works fine - once. Like the Borg, they learn.

He is not a true man of science who does not bring some sympathy to his studies, and expect to learn something by behaviour as well as application.

The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.