Learning, while at school, that the charge for the education of girls was the same as that for boys, and that, when they became teachers, women received only half as much as men for their services, the injustice of this distinction was so apparent.
Category: learning
The trick in life is learning how to deal with it.
What makes this story so remarkable is that throughout my early childhood I had ongoing learning difficulties, particularly in mathematics. I struggled to learn the multiplication table, and no matter how hard I tried, I simply couldn’t remember 6 times 7 or 7 times 8.
It wasn’t until I went to college that I met the theatre people and began to admire them because they were learning a trade that was guaranteed to make money!
We’re learning as we go. We’re a lot smarter this time. We understand what it takes to mobilize away from the threat of a hurricane.
We must expect to fail… but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.
Of course, I’d like to produce and direct a blockbuster, but you gotta build up to that. So now I’m learning from a bunch of little movies. And it’s more fun with smaller pictures. It’s more creative.
I’ve studied all my musical life, but learning is only good if you do something constructive with it.
I know what I like when I see it, but no way have I ever become interested in learning about it.
I am a firm believer that God has already ordered the things that have taken place in my life…and I’m just learning to follow the path he’s laid before me.