Learning Community Quotes

There is an extraordinary collaborative spirit when you are learning and growing.

I'm not going to school just for the academics - I wanted to share ideas, to be around people who are passionate about learning.

I liked the education. I liked people learning things all around me and I liked going to people's classes.

As every writer has his use, every writer ought to have his patrons; and since no man, however high he may now stand, can be certain that he shall not be soon thrown down from his elevation by criticism or caprice, the common interest of learning requires that her sons should cease from intestine hostilities, and, instead of sacrificing each other to malice and contempt, endeavour to avert persecution from the meanest of their fraternity.

It is essential to view learning as a total community responsibility.

I've been homeschooling for eight years and have always received the best advice and encouragement from other homeschoolers, rather than a book or lecture.

The school must be "a genuine form of active community life, instead of a place set apart in which to learn lessons".

Even when I went to the Lion's Head in the Village, where all you journalists would hang out, I was always peripheral. I was never really part of anything except the classroom. That's where I belonged.

To be a teacher in the right sense is to be a learner. I am not a teacher, only a fellow student.

There is no hierarchy of elder knowledge in my social region of things. There are only people learning and sharing in a very complex environment.

There are things that have excited me to no end, and it's the sharing of knowledge that has come about on the network, and I see at an increasing pace this ability to share what we know.

Imparting education not only enlightens the receiver, but also broadens the giver - the teachers, the parents, the friends.

I like being surrounded by students and intellectuals.

I admired what my students were writing, but I think their improvement doesn't directly result from me but from being in a class, being with each other.

For most, the school is the first model of a community, and it can be a very powerful one. We need to ensure that young people are raised in educational communities that they admire and that they will seek to emulate or re-create for the rest of their lives.

There is an army of the informed wanting to be more informed.

The Learning Hub is a collection of handmade concrete towers surrounding a central space that brings everyone together, interspersed with nooks, balconies and gardens for informal collaborative learning.

I have a home-school group with a couple of my friends. We switch off going to each others' houses and going to the library to do art and stuff. It's almost like our own little school - a really little school.

I was not the midwife of the Law School, but its fraternal twin.

Community college is like a disco with books: "Here's ten dollars; let me get my learn on!"

I think a part of me thought that I might be interested in academia because I really do love school. I mean that on all levels - I like educational environments; I like being part of that community of learning and exploration. And I like to talk.

We want Facebook to be one of the best places people can go to learn how to build stuff.