Quotes About Learning

As soon as students get a grade, the learning stops. We may not like it, but the research reviewed here shows that this is a relatively stable feature of how human minds work.

The first fundamental principle of effective classroom feedback is that feedback should be more work for the recipient than the donor.

the shorter the time interval between eliciting the evidence and using it to improve instruction, the bigger the likely impact on learning.

there is a significant body of research that shows that one hour students spend devising questions about what they have been learning with correct solutions is more effective than one hour spent completing practice tests

The sutras liken reincarnation to the relationship between teachers and students. A singing teacher teaches students how to sing. His students learn techniques and benefit from direct experiential advice from their teacher. But the teacher doesn't remove a song from his throat and insert it into a student's mouth. Similarly, reincarnation is a continuity of everything we have learnt, like lighting one candle from another, or a face and its reflection in a mirror.

We have ignored cultural literacy in thinking about education ... We ignore the air we breathe until it is thin or foul. Cultural literacy is the oxygen of social intercourse.

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

Every answer asks a more beautiful question

One never finishes learning about art. There are always new things to discover.

What I have always loved best about the history of the world is that it is true. That all the extraordinary things we read were no less real than you and I are today.

To state a theorem and then to show examples is literally to teach backwards.

Some days you must learn a great deal. But you should also have days when you allow what is already in you to swell up and touch everything. If you never let that happen, then you just accumulate facts, and they begin to rattle around inside of you.

I think it was the institution...I was trying to master it.

Isaac liked me because I was ignorant and that meant he could teach me, right? That made him feel like a man.

I own a well-used library card and not much else

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Wisdom disguises our wounds: it teaches us how to bleed in secret.

Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.

The world is not a prison house; it is a spiritual kindergarten where millions of bewildered infants are trying to spell G-O-D wih the wrong blocks.

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance

Knowledge is a funny thing, Auron. The more of it that's in your head, the more your head can hold. It breeds on its own. You never know what the next bit of reading is going to do, what it's going to meet up with in your head and mate.

It's a bad idea to try to prevent people from knowing their own history. If you want to do anything new you must first make sure you know what people have tried before.

Los griegos decían que el asombro es el principio del conocimiento, y si dejamos de asombrarnos corremos el riesgo de dejar de conocer.

The more we become aware of the enormous pull in man to repeat what he has learned, the greater will be our admiration for those exceptional beings who could break this spell and make a significant advance on which others could build.