I had some proper training, but that was only on snare drum. Learning all the techniques in marching bands and realizing how important it is to play tight set a standard for me for when I did get into a band.
Copy Quote View & ShareLearning to love my inner and outer beauty wasn't an easy road. I still don't always love the reflection I see in the mirror, but I have learned that my outer appearance does not define me.
Copy Quote View & ShareI went to an inner-city school in Buffalo. We had no money. But our teachers believed in hands-on active learning - there was a mandatory science fair, which was critical.
Copy Quote View & ShareOne thing I'm hearing a lot is from teachers who have felt that there's something wrong with the extreme group learning, but felt like they couldn't say that out loud. And apparently the discussion is now opening up. I think change is going to be a long time coming.
Copy Quote View & ShareLearning to play with a big amplifier is like trying to control an elephant.
Copy Quote View & ShareI think I've tried to have a platform to speak and to help kids understand learning about baseball.
Copy Quote View & ShareChildren whose parents return to study do much better at school. Offenders who persist with studies are much less likely to reoffend. The national mental health strategy recognises the important role adult learning can play for people recovering from mental illness.
Copy Quote View & ShareLearning what you don't want to do is pretty valuable, it may be as valuable as figuring out what it is you do want to do.
Copy Quote View & ShareLearning that we have a scapegoat is to lose it forever and to expose ourselves to mimetic conflicts with no possible resolution.
Copy Quote View & ShareLearning to love in the way someone wants to be loved is far more the definition of love than just loving in any way.
Copy Quote View & ShareIt was a fantastic learning experience and OK, I got slammed because I wasn't Audrey Hepburn but you could have predicted that, really, if you'd opened your eyes wide enough.
Copy Quote View & ShareThe French word for wanderlust or wandering is 'errance.' The etymology is the same as 'error.' So to wander is to make mistakes. In other words, to make mistakes, to make errors is sort of the idea of learning through trial and error, allowing the mistakes to be part of the process.
Copy Quote View & ShareAll mankind is now learning that these nuclear weapons can only serve to destroy, never become beneficial.
Copy Quote View & ShareDiabetes is a disease that's had a deep impact on my family. My little brother has had type 1 diabetes since he was a baby and I have spent time learning about the disease and trying to bring attention to it so that one day soon we will reach a cure.
Copy Quote View & ShareAre your kids learning the right lessons about 9/11? Ten years after Osama bin Laden's henchmen murdered thousands of innocents on American soil, too many children have been spoon-fed the thin gruel of progressive political correctness over the stiff antidote of truth.
Copy Quote View & ShareI was fascinated by all of it. The sounds of the theater and the audience, their rapture when a play took over and moved them and held them quietly... When the audience was truly moved, it was absolutely quiet. They were in a communion because they were learning the truth about themselves.
Copy Quote View & ShareProfessionally, I was at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and did lots of things there, and then I won the BBC Carlton Hobbs Award, so I did some BBC Radio drama work, which is a lovely way to start out because you work with lots of great people, and you're working all the time, so you're learning rather than sitting around and waitressing.
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