Quotes About Learning

Adversity in life teaches you.

Everyone's a different person when they're younger. You evolve as a human being with knowledge and attitude and challenges and obstacles in life.

The reason literacy is important is that literature is the operating instructions. The best manual we have. The most useful guide to the country we're visiting, life.

I think of a child's mind as a blank book. During the first years of his life, much will be written on the pages. The quality of that writing will affect his life profoundly.

My life is littered with bad decisions.

Life is the only game in which the object of the game is to learn the rules.

Chess is life and every game is like a new life.

I am not resigned: I am not sure life is long enough to learn that lesson.

I never took a lesson until I was 20, and I'm glad I had those years living the life of a normal person. I don't consider that time wasted.

Daily life is more instructive than the most effective book.

History illumes reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life

He said you couldn't pretend the terrible things in life didn't happen. You can't clean it up. You keep all the refuse and the scars. It's how you learn. And try to make improvements.

An easy life doesn't teach us anything. In the end it's the learning that matters: what we've learned and how we've grown

I've spent my whole life learning how to do things that were hard for me.

Life is about growing, learning, and becoming. You can not grow, learn, or become if you can not embrace the changes in your life.

The first 50 years are for learning, and the second 50 years are for living. Life just begins when you're in your 50s.

You're only young once.

And books which told me everything about the wasp, except why.

A bad curriculum well taught is invariably a better experience for students than a good curriculum badly taught: pedagogy trumps curriculum. Or more precisely, pedagogy is curriculum, because what matters is how things are taught, rather than what is taught.

The greatest impact on learning is the daily lived experiences of students in classrooms, and that is determined much more by how teachers teach than by what they teach.

feedback should cause thinking. It should be focused; it should relate to the learning goals that have been shared with the students; and it should be more work for the recipient than the donor. Indeed, the whole purpose of feedback should be to increase the extent to which students are owners of their own learning

The teacher's job is not to transmit knowledge, nor to facilitate learning. It is to engineer effective learning environments for the students. The key features of effective learning environments are that they create student engagement and allow teachers, learners, and their peers to ensure that the learning is proceeding in the intended direction. The only way we can do this is through assessment. That is why assessment is, indeed, the bridge between teaching and learning.

Feedback functions formatively only if the information fed back to the learner is used by the learner in improving performance.

It has long been known that learners remember responses they generate themselves better than those responses that are given to them, and this is now often called the generation effect (Slamecka & Graf, 1978). In particular, one hour students spend writing test questions on what they have been studying results in more learning for them than one hour spent working with a study guide, answering practice tests, or leaving the students to their own devices (Foos, Mora, & Tkacz, 1994).