Quotes About Learning

Now let's do the same kind of analysis for people like

Herhangi bir ÅŸeyde dünya klasman?nda bir uzman olmay? saÄŸlayacak ustal?k düzeyine ulaÅŸmak için 10 bin saat pratik gerektiÄŸine iÅŸaret ediyor nörolog Daniel Levitin.

there is a reproducible correlation between the time required to pronounce numbers in a given language and the memory span of its speakers.

no argument in the book has resonated more with readers than this one. We live in a world saturated with information. We have virtually unlimited amounts of data at our fingertips at all times, and we're well versed in the arguments about the dangers of not knowing enough and not doing our homework. But what I have sensed is an enormous frustration with the unexpected costs of knowing too much, of being inundated with information. We have come to confuse information with understanding.

Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that

lo que se aprende por necesidad está mucho más cargado de significado que lo que se aprende fácilmente.

professors accept

With classrooms like this one, people will call what is happening a behavioral issue," Hamre said. We were watching one of Stella's kids wiggling and squirming and contorting her face and altogether doing whatever she could to avoid her teacher. "But one of the things we find is that this sort of thing is more often an engagement problem than a behavioral problem. If the teacher is actually doing something interesting, these kids are quite capable of being engaged.

Los niños no ven la tele cuando reciben de ella el estímulo necesario ni apartan la vista cuando sienten que les aburre, sino que la ven cuando pueden comprender y dejan de hacerlo cuando les confunde.

one harder than the one before it, and IQ is calculated based

Teacher effects dwarf school effects: your child is actually better off in a bad school with an excellent teacher than in an excellent school with a bad teacher.

Look at how easily Alex interrupts the doctor—I'm not ten. That's entitlement: his mother permits that casual incivility because she wants him to learn to assert himself with people in positions of authority.

Hooker knew everything he could possibly know about his enemy. But it didn't help him. The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter.

We answered him when we could. And when we couldn't, we would just give him a book.

Everything we have learned in Outliers says that success follows a predictable course.

program and not. "It's just like sports," Dhuey said. "We do ability grouping early on in childhood. We have advanced reading groups and advanced math groups. So, early on, if we look at young kids, in kindergarten

A volte pensiamo che la bravura in matematica dipenda da un'attitudine innata, che si ha o non si ha. [...] La matematica si impara se si è disposti a fare dei tentativi.

Los disléxicos compensan su discapacidad desarrollando otras destrezas que —algunas veces— se revelan como destacadas ventajas

La práctica no es lo que uno hace cuando es bueno. Es lo que uno hace para volverse bueno.

Malcolm Gladwell

They could let students learn with and compete against other students of the same maturity level. It would be a little bit more complicated administratively. But it wouldn't necessarily cost that much more money, and it would level the playing field for those who—through no fault of their own—have been dealt a big disadvantage by the educational system.

one. It's the kind of really hard question that comes at the end of the Raven's.

I'm sorry to say that the subject I most disliked was mathematics. I have thought about it. I think the reason was that mathematics leaves no room for argument. If you made a mistake, that was all there was to it.

And just because you have colleges and universities doesn't mean you have education.