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.

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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

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One of the things I teach my children is that I have always invested in myself, and I have never stopped learning, never stopped growing.

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The minute we stop learning, we begin death, the process of dying. We learn from each other with every action we perform. We are teaching goodness or evil every time we step out of the house and into the street.

-- Leo Buscaglia

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Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.

-- Thucydides

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The quality of a university is measured more by the kind of student it turns out than the kind it takes in. Robert J. Kibbee

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