Sentence examples for for the sake of learning from inspiring English sources

It was a horrible experience operating towards an output, rather than learning for the sake of learning.

While some have criticized Mr. Fryer's incentive programs, saying they undermine the idea of learning simply for the sake of learning, Mr. Klein has ardently defended the experiments.

— Suzanne Spector Please Don't Learn to Code Codinghorror.com |  A programmer argues: Don't advocate learning to code just for the sake of learning how to code.

On his Web site, Mr. Schoener, whose Ph.D. is in ancient Greek philosophy, describes it as "a modest project, not a pre-eminent one, undertaken for the sake of learning".

Dr. Gordin writes that the academy ceased to be an appendage of the royal court and evolved into a robust enterprise in which "learning was shielded from turmoil and friendly competition provoked for the sake of learning".

Ishan Nath, who also won a Rhodes Scholarship, disagrees with those who say that Stanford is a utilitarian university: "There are plenty of opportunities for learning for the sake of learning here".

Academic investigators typically thrive on exploring an area--presuming that funding is available--for the sake of learning what makes things tick.

What I like most about this concept though is that the company just did it on their own…no waiting around to sell to a client…just a rapid prototype that they brought to fruition and submitted for the sake of coolness, learning and potential as a product.

Many students, however, were reluctant to compromise their social relationships for the sake of collaborative learning.

A total of 61.3% of female and 56.6% of male medical student respondents and 17.3% female and 13.6% of male other healthcare respondents (excluding pharmacy students) reported undertaking an examination/procedure on a patient without valid consent following the request of a clinical teacher for the sake of their learning.

We define the general model overlap as the probability product kernel used in vector machine learning to measure statistical distances for the sake of discriminative learning (Jebara et al., 2004).