Learning Failure Quotes

What we learn from history is that people don't learn from history.

Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.

There's a lot we should be able to learn from history. And yet history proves that we never do. In fact, the main lesson of history is that we never learn the lessons of history. This makes us look so stupid that few people care to read it. They'd rather not be reminded. Any good history book is mainly just a long list of mistakes, complete with names and dates. It's very embarrassing.

Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

The lessons of history teach us - if the lessons of history teach us anything - that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us.

When I joined the band I didn't know any of the tunes, and when I left the band I didn't know any of the tunes!

Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.

Even if we remember the past, odds are good we'll still repeat it.

The only thing we learn from history, I am afraid, is that we do not learn from history.

Wall Street people learn nothing and forget everything.

My mother tried to teach me when I was a small child to sing but failed because of my inability to carry a tune.

School is a twelve-year jail sentence where bad habits are the only curriculum truly learned. I teach school and win awards doing it. I should know.

My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself.

Kid's heads are filled with so many nonfacts that when they get out of school they're totally unprepared to do anything. They can't read, they can't write, they can't think. Talk about child abuse. The U.S. school system as a whole qualifies.

I never learned to read music.

One of mankind's problems is we keep committing the same errors.

I don't seem to be able to learn from experience or anything useful. History doesn't help me. Precedents don't inform my experience.

men don't make different mistakes at different periods of their lives. They make the same mistake over and over again and they pay a bigger and bigger price for it.

It's an insane tragedy that 700,000 people get a diploma each year and can't read the damned diploma.

She drowned in words that could not teach her how to swim.

I think we're doing a dreadful job of educating.

Trying to convince myself I've found one. Making the mistake I never learned from.

I learned nothing while I was in school.

I passed my classes because I displayed effort, not because I learned math. But how can we help young people understand life rarely gives partial credit for effort, especially if that effort doesn't lead to understanding or success?