Learning is easier if you are honest about your own ignorance. People want to seem in the know. They try to signal that they are intelligent and informed. This is often counterproductive. Insecurity is the enemy of learning. A master knows how to be a beginner.

Quotern

Learning is easier if you are honest about your own ignorance. People want to seem in the know. They try to signal that they are intelligent and informed. This is often counterproductive. Insecurity is the enemy of learning. A master knows how to be a beginner.

-- Anonymous

Copy

Recommended for You ...

Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you’ve got something to share.

-- Steve Harvey

Copy Detail

My mother was a first-grade teacher, so I credit her with this lifelong intellectual curiosity I have, and love of reading and learning.

-- Anonymous

Copy Detail

The barrier during self-improvement is not so much that we hate learning, rather we hate being taught.

-- Criss Jami

Copy Detail

Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

-- Miles Kington

Copy Detail

The best teacher is the one who teaches you how to be your teacher! –

-- Anonymous

Copy Detail