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I have never forgotten my days as an Eagle Scout. I didn’t know it at the time, but what really came out of my Scouting was learning how to lead and serve the community. It has come in handy in my career in government.
Father, in spite of all this spending of money in learning Latin, I will be a painter.
For a small child there is no division between playing and learning between the things he or she does just for fun and things that are educational. The child learns while living and any part of living that is enjoyable is also play.
For me, French is so rich and so sacred that learning it is like learning a foreign language.
No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one.
We were learning together. We’d go to various clinics and try to learn as much as possible.
I was myself brought up with my brother, whose name was Matthias, for he was my own brother, by both father and mother and I made mighty proficiency in the improvements of my learning, and appeared to have both a great memory and understanding.
Coming to understand a painting or a symphony in an unfamiliar style, to recognize the work of an artist or school, to see or hear in new ways, is as cognitive an achievement as learning to read or write or add.
Just learning to think in another language allows you to see your own culture in a better viewpoint.
The nice thing about being a writer is that you can make magic happen without learning tricks.