Quotes About Learning

It's thought that this heightened sensitivity to similarities and differences during interleaved practice leads to the encoding of more complex and nuanced representations of the study material—a better understanding of how specimens or types of problems are distinctive and why they call for a different interpretation or solution.

In testing, being required to supply an answer rather than select from multiple choice options often provides stronger learning benefits. Having to write a short essay makes them stronger still. Overcoming these mild difficulties is a form of active learning, where students engage in higher-order thinking tasks rather than passively receiving knowledge conferred by others.

Knowledge is more durable if it's deeply entrenched, meaning that you have firmly and thoroughly comprehended a concept, it has practical importance or keen emotional weight in your life, and it is connected with other knowledge that you hold in memory.

When you space out practice at a task and get a little rusty between sessions, or you interleave the practice of two or more subjects, retrieval is harder and feels less productive, but the effort produces longer lasting learning and enables more versatile application of it in later settings.

In another surprise, when letters are omitted from words in a text, requiring the reader to supply them, reading is slowed, and retention improves.

Rereading text and massed practice of a skill or new knowledge are by far the preferred study strategies of learners of all stripes, but they're also among the least productive.

Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you. Ovid, epigram in Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You

I have learned from my mistakes, and I am sure I can repeat them exactly

Skills pay bills, degrees pay fees.

Ignorance is the enemy, curiosity the weapon of choice

I hope that as a totally literate human being that you don't even know what "illiteracy" is because it simply doesn't exist in your world.

I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry.

They need to learn poetry. They don't need to learn about poetry. They don't need to be told how to interpret poetry. They don't need to be told how to understand poetry. They need to learn it.

I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.

We all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.

There's no such thing as knowledge management; there are only knowledgeable people. Information only becomes knowledge in the hands of someone who knows what to do with it.

People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.

My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.

Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.

The deepest dependency is not of students upon teachers, but of teachers upon students.

Life is not about receiving. It is about giving, knowing that someone might learn, understand or grow that little bit from the experience

Wisdom isn't about finding a quick answer key to life—like turning to the index, finding your problem, and turning to the right page so it all works out. Wisdom is about learning how to work through the unpredictable, uncontrollable messiness of life so you can figure things out on your own in real time. Both

judging by how the Bible actually behaves—God did not design scripture to be a hushed afternoon in an oak-paneled library. Instead, God has invited us to participate in a wrestling match, a forum for us to be stretched and to grow.