I came to accept during my freshman year that many of the gaps in my knowledge and understanding were simply limits of class and cultural background, not lack of aptitude or application as I'd feared.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
I believe everything learned in college is an answer to a question that someone has posed. Questions get posed differently and the answers that come back transport us to places we never knew existed.
I listened more than I studied... therefore little by little my knowledge and ability were developed.
The so-called skills gap is really a gap in education, and that affects all of us.
The notion that every well educated person would have a mastery of at least the basic elements of the humanities, sciences, and social sciences is a far cry from the specialized education that most students today receive, particularly in the research universities.
I've always maintained that I see myself as a student. There's always something to learn and be challenged by and hopefully grow from.
I wasn't a very good student. I prefer to learn by experience.
I feel that I learned far more from my students than I could possibly have taught them.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.
I was a child with an insatiable thirst for knowledge and remember enjoying all of my courses almost equally. When it came time at the end of my high school career to choose a major in which to specialize, I was in a quandary.