Surviving everyday struggles in order to barely pass a course can be hard. It can seem like it’s a never ending struggle.
What you look at when you feel down, hopeless, tired , is for something that can ignite your motivation. This is what today’s post is about. So we will go through a few quotes about learning for students.
While some of these quotes might help you start your work – be it an assignment, or quiz/exam preparation-, I would advice you to have some long term plan to help reduce your dependence on motivation for doing work or studying.
As you might have experienced, relying too much on motivation can prove sometimes to be less reliable, especially when specific conditions happen like you are physically tired requiring sleep. Other times it’s just you are not in the mood to study.
In order to avoid wasting time in such situations, it is best to start learning and reading on how you actually make a long term plan to reduce your dependence on motivation for studying.
But anyway, let’s start with our first quote.
1- “In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.” — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
His quote highlights an important life experience he discovered, that applying the knowledge you learn is the best way to actually effectively learn. His quote provides the fundation to a better question, one that everyone wants to learn it’s answer. This question is how do we actually learn? How can someone learn. Well the easier answer according to him is to apply the knowledge. However If you want to know the longest answer , refer to my article about how to learn more effectively.
It should be noted that Johann Wolfgang was a man of many trades. He lived in the 18th century. He was a poet, novelist, scientist, statesman and a theatre-director among other things.
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“The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.”—Herbert Spencer
What is the purpose of education?
While the answer to this can be a standalone article by itself, a short answer according to U.S department of education is that the aim of education is to promote people to aquire knowledge and skills which can help them becoming successful members of the society.
Being a useful member of society is usually correlated with working a benefial job. The logic can go further that working in a job beneficial to society will lead to high salary. But this is not always the truth or at least not always apparent.
But let’s not focus too much on the big picture and we focus more on how can this quote help you?
By guiding you to focus on applying the knowledge you learn.
Don’t just memories At the end of the day, if you don’t use or apply your knowledge, you will most probably forget about it.