Learning Resistance Quotes

The mind does not easily unlearn what it has been long in learning.

When you're forced to watch something in school, you never really enjoy it; you sort of rebel against it in a certain way.

Try fighting with your head for a change... it's a good one, even if it does resist learning.

It's no good trying to teach people who need to be taught.

I've not chosen to learn to read print. I can read simple words but it's so tedious.

That image of the countryside being a threatening place still exists. People continue to resist the challenge of learning about aspects of life they don't understand.

Many receive a criticism and think it is fine; think they got their money's worth; think well of the teacher for it, and then go on with their work just the same as before. That is the reason much of the wisdom of Plato is still locked up in the pages of Plato.

It was like a heart transplant. We tried to implant college in him but his head rejected it.

God help the teacher, if a man of sensibility and genius, when a booby father presents him with his booby son, and insists on lighting up the rays of science in a fellow's head whose skull is impervious and inaccessible by any other way than a positive fracture with a cudgel.

Though it is evident, that not more than one age or people can deserve the censure of being more averse from learning than any other, yet at all times knowledge must have encountered impediments, and wit been mortified with contempt, or harassed with persecution.

It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.

I expressed myself through hyperactivity and disruption. I wanted to play rather than study.

I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner.

Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations.

I couldn't think of anything less appealing than molding the minds of tomorrow's leaders.

That which anyone has been long learning unwillingly, he unlearns with proportional eagerness and haste.

Teacher, there are things that I don't want to learn.

I've never really learned anything when I feel like it's being forced down my throat.