Order is no guarantee of understanding. Sometimes just the opposite is true.

Education is to learning as tour groups are to adventure.

A weekday edition of The New York Times contains more information than the average person was likely to come across in a lifetime in seventeenth-century England

What situations can I create that allow me not to have the disease of familiarity?

Learning can be defined as the process of remembering what you are interested in.

Physicist Isador Isaac Rabi, who won a Nobel Prize for inventing a technique that permitted scientists to probe the structure of atoms and molecules in the 1930s, attributed his success to the way his mother used to greet him when he came home from school each day. "Did you ask any good questions today, Isaac?" she would say.

In school, we're rewarded for having the answer, not for asking a good question.