Quotes About Learning

To establish and to sustain an advanced culture, we need to avoid being debilitated either by error or by ignorance. We need to know—and, of course, we must also understand how to make productive use of—a great many truths.

This is a world where the educated get richer and the uneducated get poorer.

Students want a safe, predictable, and nurturing environment—one that is consistent. Students like well-managed classes because no one yells at them, and learning takes place. Effective teachers spend the first two weeks teaching students to be in control of their own actions in a consistent classroom environment.

not all students complete their assignments, often because they either cannot understand the assignment or they fail to see the reason for doing it. In both cases, the assignment may be poorly designed.

School is not a place where students come to listen to lectures, fill in worksheets, and endure boredom. Nor is it a place reserved for those who can tolerate the drab and dirty look of many schools. School is a concept wherein students are welcome to learn and enhance the quality of their lives without fear of intimidation or harm, guided by hospitable and caring people in a clean and orderly environment.

when the assignment does not spell out what the student is to learn. There are no standards, no objectives, and no activities done for a specified reason. It's like shooting arrows blindfolded hoping that one will hit a non-existing target.

When the students have no idea what is to be learned, and the teacher has no idea what is to be taught, no student learning can take place.

One of the most frequently used and useless phrases in education is, "I have so much to cover. How am I going to finish it by the end of the year?" Notice that the word I is used twice and the word student is never used.

Faptul ca un om a avut parte de o pregatire stiintifica nu inseamna neaparat ca el urmeaza sa aiba un comportament stiintific tot timpul.

Marks usually reward the most docile students, those who conform to their teachers' opinions. There's nothing competitive about learning, it's something everyone does for himself alone.

you would like to remember names and faces, there are three steps involved; the first step takes care of the name, the second takes care of the face, and the third locks the two of them together. What you have to do is associate the name to the face in some ridiculous way.

You Can Remember Any New Piece of Information if It Is Associated to Something You Already Know or Remember.

In Order to Remember Any New Piece of Information, It Must Be Associated to Something You Already Know or Remember in Some Ridiculous Way.

Even if step three didn't work (which it does), just applying steps one and two must improve your memory for names and faces, because you've done what most people don't do—you've paid attention; you've listened and looked.

What you've learned in the preceding chapter is a tiny part of the Link system of memory. We call it the "Link" system because what you're doing when you apply it is linking one item to another, forming the links of a memory chain. One item must lead you to the next, if you're associating properly.

One of the fundamentals of a trained memory is what we call Original Awareness. Anything of which you are Originally Aware cannot be forgotten. And, applying our systems of association will force Original Awareness. Observation is essential to Original Awareness—anything you wish to remember must first be observed.

School het echte werk in de voorbereidingen en was de eigenlijke presentatie niet meer dan een toegift?

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The only thing new in this world is the history that you don't know

The only new thing is history we don't know.

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know.

Study men, not historians.