To know ourselves is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning the first Lessons therefore given us ought to be on that Subject.
In such an environment I was able to study things that could be of immediate usefulness to the world. That learning experience undoubtedly served me well when I eventually entered the work force.
Travel provided many interesting experiences but perhaps the most useful lesson I learned was that I really had no proficiency for learning the thousands of characters of the written Chinese language.
Early on it's good to develop the ability to write. Learning to write is a useful exercise even if what you're writing about is not that relevant.
We're not that much smarter than we used to be even though we have much more information - and that means the real skill now is learning how to pick out the useful information from all this noise.
Learning a foreign language and the culture that goes with it is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sympathy and cultural outlook of children.
Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books.
The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.
France after the month of May will share trust with the current leadership of the United States which on many subjects has tended to take useful positions in our view.
If no other knowledge deserves to be called useful but that which helps to enlarge our possessions or to raise our station in society then Mythology has no claim to the appellation.