Quotes About Learning

It is of great advantage to the student of any subject to read the original memoirs on that subject, for science is always most completely assimilated when it is in the nascent state...

SIOP is teacher-centric, a classic transmission model. Sadly, this approach is all too common in the education of low-income and minority students and of English learners in particular: Learning is conceived not as something a learner does, but as something that is done to a learner.52

it's hard to imagine a more tedious approach, practically guaranteed to deaden the enthusiasm of 12-year-olds.

sheltered classes are for intermediate [language learners], not beginners." The reason should be obvious: "It is extremely difficult to teach subject matter to those who have acquired none or little of the language. Beginners should be in regular ESL, where they are assured of comprehensible input."63 Unrealistic language demands create, in effect, a sink-or-swim situation, in which academic learning is minimal.

the Comprehension Hypothesis,12 elaborated by Stephen Krashen in the early 1980s. It holds that one factor above all is responsible for second language acquisition: comprehensible input in that language.

The more children focused on messages with a real-life purpose, rather than on, say, repetitive grammar drills or artificial dialogues, the more French they understood.

Teachers needed to emphasize the message, not the medium. Ideally, the curriculum should be so engaging that students would forget which language the teacher was using!

not focusing on language turns out to be an effective way to teach language in sheltered classrooms, especially the kind of academic language that students need for school.

conscious learning remains the method and goal of skill-building models. To the extent that students acquire any language at all in such classes, Krashen argues, comprehensible input—provided haphazardly rather than purposefully—is responsible.

Noam Chomsky pointed out, the number of possible sentences is infinite in any language; there is no limit to the grammatical combination of words. Behaviorism cannot explain how, after relatively limited exposure to a mother tongue, young children acquire complex syntactic structures and begin to produce "correct" utterances never heard before, by themselves or by others. What's more, they accomplish these amazing intellectual feats without being explicitly taught.

A highly structured, prescriptive model of sheltering and scaffolding is not necessary for effectively educating English learners. In fact, mandating any approach that allows for little deviation is likely to be counterproductive. Just as explicit instruction encourages passive learning, tightly scripted lessons encourage passive teaching.

In addition to the research, I enjoyed learning French and assimilating the culture of another country.

As you go if you are like me and want to further hone in on what you already know from your life while learning new tricks and improving your craft that is where you will become even more successful in anything you do

The file cabinets in my head are never-ending rows of knowledge and creativity.

Imagine what you will do once you learn to refocus all the energy used in regret on over to baking more cakes.

We all learn new things from places and people we never imagined we would and that my friends are how you grow in life until the day you die

If you cannot teach a new dog old tricks then let him be and smile

Closeting your failures only prolongs your success

Failure is a pre requisite to success

When you choose to have limits, you limit yourself for growth, knowledge and experience

When you choose to have limits, you limit yourself for growth, knowledge and experience." – James D. Wilson

Failure is a pre requisite to success you cannot be successful for the long haul if you bypass the failure requirement

Getting kicked in my teeth hard was the best thing that ever happened to me

Learn to automate the process for the cake you baked before baking your next cake