Quotes About Learning

Feedback is most powerful when it is linked to a goal and it informs the learner how they are progressing toward that goal. Feedback that compares the learner's outcomes to the outcomes of others draws attention to the self and has been shown to reduce motivation for learning.

For most effective learning of strategic tasks, use two or more worked examples that reflect the same guidelines but vary regarding the context.

However, the benefits of spaced practice are apparent after 60 days. Since many training organizations don't evaluate learning over time, the benefits of spaced practice are rarely documented. Based on a lot of accumulated evidence, though, spaced practice will give you a better long-term return.

A self-explanation is an activity on the part of the learner that results in a deliberate and deep review of a worked example.

The best approach to teaching procedural skills is a directive design. Direct instruction includes three core elements: explanations, as summarized in the previous chapter; demonstrations of skills; and student practice with feedback.

Relevant visuals have one of the highest effect sizes of 1.4 for novice learners. In addition, learners like them! Don't shortchange or abuse this important instructional method. Remember to keep visuals simple based on the goal of your explanation. Excluding extraneous or distracting visuals also has a very high effect size of 1.66, so maximize the value of your visuals by keeping them relevant to your learning objective.

Teachers are the single most important determinant of a student's schooling experience and academic outcomes. Social science studies have demonstrated not only that highly effective teachers are capable of producing nearly three times the student achievement gains of low-performing teachers, but also that a series of five above-average teachers can overcome the deficit typically reported between economically disadvantaged and higher income students. (p. 3)

a little knowledge would unlock the gates to vast and unsuspected gates of ignorance.

But how can an ordinary girl not know this? Had Varana's mother not bothered to teach her anything at all or just shouted complaints from a distance while her children fought and argued amongst themselves like wolf cubs?

Hasta qué punto necesitan nuestras mentes aprender a descansar de la forma en que lo describe el salmista!

El aprender a descansar en Dios en los tiempos de soledad comienza con el cuerpo, como la imagen del niño amamantado lo sugiere. Esta imagen me lleva a los momentos llenos de suavidad y ternura de mis primeros tiempos como madre.

he yells, you run like the wind. That lad plays you like an old piano – and you know it.' 'But he's only four months old—' Edie nodded briskly.

I wasn't a financial pro, and I paid the price.

Information is a lot like water; it's hard to hold on to, and hard to keep from leaking away.

One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don't know how to do, to keep learning.

Goodness, Mr. Cellini, I've not time to answer all these questions. I've got to get on.' With what? She seldom did anything but read, as far as he knew. She must have read thousands of books, she was always at it.

What matters isn't how experienced you are—it's how willing you are to ponder questions with no easy answers.

Law without education is a dead letter. With education the needed law follows without effort and, of course, with power to execute itself indeed, it seems to execute itself.

We're drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Part of the joy of music is listening to lots of different kinds of music and learning from it. Specifically for me, I like writing songs that move me, and what moves me are beautiful songs on the piano or the guitar and really, really heavy music.

And it's okay for a man to know life is full of choices, and most of the ones we make are wrong.

I think the biggest thing was that I was putting pressure on myself leading up to Beijing. Now I am learning how to take that pressure off and seeing this as an incredible opportunity, but not like, 'I absolutely have to medal.'

Sucking at something is the first step towards being sorta good at something.

Mistakes and Decisions: A person should never make a mistake, a bad decision, but if they do they should admit to it and except responsibility for the Proper and appropriate penalties, if its appropriate there are any penalties at all.