Quotes About Education

paraphrasing it. Secondly, his approach to literature is overwhelmingly moral; its purpose is to teach us about life, to transmit humane

You could start now, and spend another forty years learning about the sea without running out of new things to know.

That is a secondary teacher conception - the writer as an observer.

In order to get [Mean Streets] made I had to learn how to make a movie," says Scorsese. "I didn't learn how to make a movie in film school. What you learned in film school was to express yourself with pictures and sound. But learning to make a movie is totally different.

If you don't believe this, think what would happen if a teacher gave all A's. The teacher would have a problem.

I think we spend too much on K-12 education a.k.a. teachers' salaries. It's the only industry where you never see any productivity increases.

There's no particular relationship between spending and educational results. Most education spending is actually on salaries, and that's allocated according to political muscle.

One attraction of Latin is that you can immerse yourself in the poems of Horace and Catullus without fretting over how to say, Have a nice day.

There is a negative proof of the value of Latin No one seems to boast of not knowing it.

Nos estamos ahogando en información, dicen, pero «pasamos hambre de conocimiento». Podemos convertirnos en «gigantes de la información», pero corremos el riesgo de convertirnos en «enanos del conocimiento».

La transformación de las clases magistrales en espectáculos a finales del siglo XX, gracias a los proyectores de diapositivas y recientemente (a partir del 1987) de presentaciones en Power Point no supone tanto una innovación como un resurgimiento.

Those who were frequently tested reached the end of the semester on top of the material and did not need to cram for exams. How

Periodic practice arrests forgetting, strengthens retrieval routes, and is essential for hanging onto the knowledge you want to gain.

In virtually all areas of learning, you build better mastery when you use testing as a tool to identify and bring up your areas of weakness.

you practice elaboration, there's no known limit to how much you can learn. Elaboration is the process of giving new material meaning by expressing it in your own words and connecting it with what you already know. The more you can explain about the way your new learning relates to your prior knowledge, the stronger your grasp of the new learning will be, and the more connections you create that will help you remember it later.

Making mistakes and correcting them builds the bridges to advanced learning.

two of the primary learning principles in the book: spaced repetition of key ideas, and the interleaving of different but related topics.

Mastery requires both the possession of ready knowledge and the conceptual understanding of how to use it.

Effortful retrieval makes for stronger learning and retention.

By massed practice we mean the single-minded, rapid-fire repetition of something you're trying to burn into memory, the "practice-practice-practice" of conventional wisdom. Cramming for exams is an example. Rereading and massed practice give rise to feelings of fluency that are taken to be signs of mastery, but for true mastery or durability these strategies are largely a waste of time.

While cramming can produce better scores on an immediate exam, the advantage quickly fades because there is much greater forgetting after rereading than after retrieval practice. The benefits of retrieval practice are long-term.

retrieval from short-term memory is an ineffective learning strategy and that errors are an integral part of striving to increase one's mastery over new material.

People commonly believe that if you expose yourself to something enough times—say, a textbook passage or a set of terms from an eighth grade biology class—you can burn it into memory. Not so.

retrieval, spacing, interleaving, variation, reflection, and elaboration.