Quotes About Comprehension

A tenth of Dostoyevsky is plenty for a seventh grader, I think.

When you change defenses, it's the same thing a lot of times. But different terminology means different things in that new defense. So you have to get accustomed to that. You have to study. Get in your books and pay attention.

The idea of 'advice,' in terms of telling people advice or asking people for advice, has become not comprehensible to me, to a certain degree, due to feeling, like, for something to be accurately defined as 'good' or 'bad,' I would want to know the context, goal, perspective for it.

You know, I'm not terribly fast at my times tables, because that's not what I think mathematics is about.

I'm not terribly science-y. I couldn't tell you what's the binomial equation or how many atoms in a mole.

People confuse being full of words with being terribly intelligent and informed.

The notion of getting under the hood and explaining how something works, that's fairly familiar territory to me.

According to the majority view of intelligence researchers, the core of intelligence is 'the ability to reason, plan, solve problems, think abstractly, comprehend complex ideas, learn quickly, and learn from experience'.

But to worship at the altar of "just read" fails to see reading for what it actually is: a complex and nuanced interplay of decoding, vocabulary, subject matter, and contextual knowledge. Well-intended but misguided teachers and administrators have imposed a kind of illiteracy on low-income children of color by focusing their attention relentlessly in the mirror, instead of out the window. Reading comprehension is not a skill you teach but a condition you create.

H. G. Wells once said that every word of which a man is ignorant represents an idea of which he is ignorant.

It seems better to me, if it seems so to you, that we…should translate certain books, which are most necessary for all men to know, into the language that we can all understand, and…that all the young freeborn men…may be set to study…until a time when they are able to read English writing well.

Getting something and having the wits to use it are two different things.

clearest vision possible.

La relación entre el padre y el hijo es curiosa. El coronel, eso se nota de inmediato, ama a su hijo por encima de sus deberes como militar, un amor que naturalmente no es correspondido, aún le falta mucho al hijo para comprender al padre, para comprender la soledad, el triste destino al que todos los seres están abocados.

I know you'll forgive my eccentricities, she said, after all we both read poetry.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

Having something explained to you does not always solve it.

A message is not delivered until it is understood.

There can be no misunderstandings if there are no understandings at all.

How much do you understand?' I demanded of her one afternoon. She cocked her head at me, met my gaze and demanded, 'How much do YOU understand?

Understanding how or why is seldom as useful as understanding that things are.

That is half of teaching an apprentice: making sure the youngster learns what you said, not what she thinks you said.

In a moment all became clear to me. How stupid could I have been?

Are you listening, Buckman? For that is your role in this conversation. You listen.' I