“You can learn to change the world or go on being changed by it.”
Laurence Yep book Dragon's Gate
Source: Dragon's Gate
“Human beings are in this world to learn and to change themselves in learning.”
— Traudl Junge, book Until the Final Hour
Until the Final Hour : Hitler's Last Secretary (2004) edited by Melissa Müller, Foreword, p. 3.
Context: We should listen to the voice of conscience. It does not take nearly as much courage as one might think to admit to our mistakes and learn from them. Human beings are in this world to learn and to change themselves in learning.
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Eric Hoffer (1898–1983) American philosopher
Section 32 <!-- also quoted in On Becoming a Leader (1989) by Warren G. Bennis, p. 189 -->
Reflections on the Human Condition (1973)
Variant: In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
Context: The central task of education is to implant a will and a facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.
In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.
“People never learn anything by being told, they have to find out for themselves.”
Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist
Source: Veronika Decides to Die
Jung Myung Seok (1945) South Korean Leader of New Religious Movement, Poet, Author, Founder of Wolmyeongdong Center
Extracted from Proverbs Blog https://providencepath.wordpress.com/2016/05/07/jung-myung-seok-learn-every-day/
“The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn
When teachers themselves are taught to learn.”
Bertolt Brecht book Life of Galileo
Scene 6
Life of Galileo (1939)
Nassim Nicholas Taleb (1960) Lebanese-American essayist, scholar, statistician, former trader and risk analyst
"Learning to Expect the Unexpected," http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/taleb04/taleb_index.html The New York Times (2004-04-08}
