Quotes About Learning

Quando a nossa mente vagueia, o nosso cérebro ativa um conjunto de circuitos cerebrais que tagarelam sobre coisas que não têm nada que ver com aquilo que estamos a tentar aprender. Na ausência de foco, nenhuma nova recordação daquilo que aprendemos é armazenada.

CI se ocupa sólo de una estrecha franja de habilidades lingüísticas y matemáticas, y que tener un elevado CI tal vez pueda predecir adecuadamente quién va a tener éxito en el aula o quién va a llegar a ser un buen profesor, pero no tiene nada que decir con respecto al camino que seguirá la persona una vez concluida su educación.

el neocórtex puede aprender a inhibir el funcionamiento de la amígdala.

Em geral, as crianças pequenas aprendem muito acerca das emoções ao olharem para os olhos dos outros, ao passo que os autistas evitam o olhar, não beneficiando dessas lições.

Trial and error, reverse-engineering stuff in your mind—all the ways kids interact with games—that's the kind of thinking schools should be teaching. As the world becomes more complex," Wright adds, "games are better at preparing you." "Kids are natural systems thinkers," says

A surprise: mindfulness also improved working memory—the holding in mind of information so it can transfer into long-term memory. Attention is crucial for working memory; if we aren't paying attention, those digits won't register in the first place.

The single most important contribution education can make to a child's development is to help him toward a field where his talents best suit him, where he will be satisfied and competent.

aprendizaje emocional.

While the world often confronts us with an unwieldy array of choices (How should you invest your retirement savings? Whom should you marry?), the emotional learning that life has given us (such as the memory of a disastrous investment or a painful breakup) sends signals that streamline the decision by eliminating some options and highlighting others at the outset.

The first three or four years of life are a period when the toddler's brain grows to about two thirds its full size, and evolves in complexity at a greater rate than it ever will again. During this period key kinds of learning take place more readily than later in life—emotional learning foremost among them. During this time severe stress can impair the brain's learning centers.

the wall is there to teach us.

children who are praised for "being smart" often believe that every encounter is a test of whether they really are. So to avoid looking dumb, they resist new challenges and choose the easiest path. By contrast, kids who understand that effort and hard work lead to mastery and growth are more willing to take on new, difficult tasks.

There were a million things, everything, I didn't know I was stupid- the official descriptive phrase for happy.

It is often said that reading is a gift, but to my mind that is an insufficient description, for the size of the gift of reading is so vast that it is difficult to see what is outside its wrapping.

There were a million things, everything, I didn't know. I was stupid, the official descriptive phrase for happy. I took this thing I'm giving you back, this thing you gave me as the star we were waiting for finally emerged.

After all, I was only eighteen then. I'm almost twenty now. I learned lots about narrative structure in my Honors English classes so I know what I'm doing.

Love-is this something we can learn to do again, and if so, when will that time arrive, even on a bad day? When do you know when something is becoming something that changes you?

The Roman philosopher Seneca the Younger (tutor to Nero) complained that his peers were wasting time and money accumulating too many books, admonishing that "the abundance of books is a distraction." Instead, Seneca recommended focusing on a limited number of good books, to be read thoroughly and repeatedly.

Intelligence is not only the ability to reason; it is also the ability to find relevant material in memory and to deploy attention when needed.

You are more likely to learn something by finding surprises in your own behavior than by hearing surprising facts about people in general.

The test of learning psychology is whether your understanding of situations you encounter has changed, not whether you have learned a new fact.

acquisition of skills requires a regular environment, an adequate opportunity to practice, and rapid and unequivocal feedback about the correctness of thoughts and actions.

The more intelligent you become the more problems you'll have, Charlie.

Dr Strauss said I had something that was very good. He said I had a good motor-vation. I never ever knew I had that. I felt proud when he said that not every body with an eye-q of 68 had that thing. I don't know what it is or where I got it but he said Algernon had it too. Algernons motor-vation is the cheese they put in his box. But it cant be that because I didnt eat any cheese last week.