Learning Quotes (page 167)
![Henry Wadsworth Longfellow quote: "Let us, then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still..."](/pic/285098/600x316/quotation-henry-wadsworth-longfellow-let-us-then-be-up-and-doing-with-a.jpg)
![Frances Hodgson Burnett quote: "are you learning me by heart little Sara No I know you by..."](/pic/285054/600x316/quotation-frances-hodgson-burnett-are-you-learning-me-by-heart-little.jpg)
![Hunter S. Thompson quote: "I was not proud of what I had learned but I never doubted that..."](/pic/284718/600x316/quotation-hunter-s-thompson-i-was-not-proud-of-what-i-had-learned-but-i.jpg)
![Friedrich Nietzsche quote: "They're so cold, these scholars! May lightning strike their..."](/pic/284629/600x316/quotation-friedrich-nietzsche-theyre-so-cold-these-scholars-may.jpg)
![Laura Ingalls Wilder quote: "I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of..."](/pic/284628/600x316/quotation-laura-ingalls-wilder-i-am-beginning-to-learn-that-it-is-the.jpg)
Grades are a problem. On the most general level, they're an explicit acknowledgment that what you're doing is insufficiently interesting or rewarding for you to do it on your own. Nobody ever gave you a grade for learning how to play, how to ride a bicycle, or how to kiss. One of the best ways to destroy love for any of these activities would be through the use of grades, and the coercion and judgment they represent. Grades are a cudgel to bludgeon the unwilling into doing what they don't...
Derrick Jensen
![Albert Einstein quote: "I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the..."](/pic/284391/600x316/quotation-albert-einstein-i-never-teach-my-pupils-i-only-attempt-to.jpg)