Quotes About Learning

Correct predictions result in understanding. Incorrect predictions result in confusion and prompt you to pay attention.

Theodore Berger, for example, a neural engineer at the University of Southern California, is working on an artificial hippocampus, one of the core neuronal structures implicated in this process. Berger's device records the electrical activity that arises whenever we encode short-term memories — for example, learning to play scales — then translates them into digital signals.

Most of us arrive in our fifties feeling that the cage has gotten smaller. What's actually shrunk is our mindset. We're in a prison of our own making. Once we discover we can keep on learning later in life, that mindset shifts. The cage vanishes. This changes everything.

The Greeks called that sudden understanding anamnesis. Literally, "the forgetting of the forgetting.

By using the tanks to eliminate all distraction, entrain specific brainwaves, and regulate heart rate frequency, the SEALs are able to cut the time it takes to learn a foreign language from six months to six weeks.

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Richard Feynman once wrote, "If you ever hear yourself saying, 'I think I understand this,' that means you don't.

The better you know something, the less you remember about how hard it was to learn. The curse of knowledge is the single best explanation I know of why good people write bad prose.

Many experiments have shown that readers understand and remember material far better when it is expressed in concrete language that allows them to form visual images

The very concept of imitation is suspect to begin with (if children are general imitators, why don't they imitate their parents' habit of sitting quietly in airplanes?)

the nature of progress that we know and they didn't. Those ideas, I suggest, are entropy, evolution, and information.

Knowing a language, then, is knowing how to translate mentalese into strings of words and vice versa. People without a language would still have mentalese, and babies and many nonhuman animals presumably have simpler dialects. Indeed, if babies did not have a mentalese to translate to and from English, it is not clear how learning English could take place, or even what learning English would mean.

Writers acquire their technique by spotting, savoring, and reverse-engineering examples of good prose.

Savoring good prose is not just a more effective way to develop a writerly ear than obeying a set of commandments; it's a more inviting one.

people learn by integrating new information into their existing web of knowledge. They don't like it when a fact is hurled at them from out of the blue and they have to keep it levitating in short-term memory until they find a relevant background to embed it in a few moments later. Topic-then-comment and given-then-new orderings are major contributors to coherence, the feeling that one sentence flows into the next rather than jerking the reader around.

the [mental] organization of grammar [is] a case where complexity in the mind is not caused by learning; learning is caused by complexity in the mind.

But probabilities are not about the world; they're about our ignorance of the world. New information reduces our ignorance and changes the probability.

Knowledge of the world is derived by observation, experimentation, and rational analysis.

Education is an admirable thing," wrote Oscar Wilde, "but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

a reader must know the topic of a text in order to understand it.

The Enlightenment is an ongoing process of discovery and betterment.

La irreligiosidad es una consecuencia natural de la riqueza y la educación.

Word learning is as scandalous an induction problem as the acquisition of syntax or the practice of science, because there are an infinite number of generalizations, most of them wrong, that are logically consistent with any sample of experiences