Quotes About Comprehension

What Wolf began to realize was that

Tversky Intelligence Test": The faster you realized Tversky was smarter than you, the smarter you were.

If you think about the class-size puzzle this way, then what seems baffling starts to make a little more sense.

One side made the discussion about racism—looking down at the case from ten thousand feet. The other side examined each detail of each case with a magnifying glass. What was the police officer like? What did he do, precisely? One side saw a forest, but no trees. The other side saw trees and no forest.

When we read, we are capable of taking in only about one key word and then four characters to the left and fifteen characters to the right at any one time.

Los niños no ven la tele cuando reciben de ella el estímulo necesario ni apartan la vista cuando sienten que les aburre, sino que la ven cuando pueden comprender y dejan de hacerlo cuando les confunde.

Hooker knew everything he could possibly know about his enemy. But it didn't help him. The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter.

don't focus on the small pieces, focus on the whole picture

Communication succeeds when you make others understand you clearly, and they make you understand them clearly.

Clarity enables Empowerment

Intelligence is knowing what's required of you

Not everyone understand everything.

Success which is something so simple in the end is made up of thousands of things we never fully know what.

I'm not looking for sympathy, just understanding.

No one really understands the grief or joy of another.

To understand is to possess the thing understood, first by sympathy and then by intelligence.

My grandmother was an English teacher for a while. And she stressed to me the importance of reading, being able to articulate well.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

A good teacher is one who can understand those who are not very good at explaining, and explain to those who are not very good at understanding.

The most important single factor influencing learning is what the learner already knows. Ascertain this and teach him accordingly.

I thought I was a good teacher until I discovered my students were just memorizing information rather than learning to understand the material.

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

Knowledge is a free good. The biggest cost in its transmission is not in the production or distribution of knowledge, but in its assimilation. This is something that all teachers know.

If they can't learn the way we teach, we teach the way they learn.