Quotes About Comprehension

The more we become able to become a child again, to keep ourselves childlike, the more we can understand that because we love the world and we are open to understanding, to comprehension, that when we kill the child in us, we are no longer.

Dialogue is never an end in itself but a means to develop a better comprehension about the object of knowledge. Otherwise, one could end up with dialogue as conversation where individual lived experiences are given primacy.

Reading is not walking on the words; it's grasping the soul of them.

Sure, society understands visible shackles-- they get the symbolism of the wheelchair, of prosthetics, of a bumper sticker reading disabled veteran, but they still struggle for comprehension of the profound, invisible shackles that an illness such as [Chronic Fatigue] puts on a person's body.

I think that to achieve true adulthood is to understand the simplicity of things.

The words and phrases you use must not only be "hearable" by the audience, they must be

When you are able to be with a person and there is no need to talk, something has happened.

To know a thing, dip yourself in it like pen and ink, let it write you in its own words. Elizabeth Ayres

A book isn't rigorous if students aren't reading it.

Perhaps I'm the only crazy person in here, but I understand zero - I mean ZERO - of what you said!

I can understand that,' Jim said. And Tommy

Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.

One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to apply it.

Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.

Sometimes the silences, the gaps, tell us more than anything else.

Mastery requires both the possession of ready knowledge and the conceptual understanding of how to use it.

Elaboration is the process of giving new material meaning by expressing it in your own words and connecting it with what you already know.

The whole idea of the testing effect is that you learn more by testing yourself than by rereading. Well, it's very hard to get students to do that because they've been trained for so long to keep reading and reading the book.

the more effort required to retrieve (or, in effect, relearn) something, the better you learn it.

There are known knowns; there are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns; that is to say, there are things that we now know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns—there are things we do not know we don't know.

An apt analogy for how the brain consolidates new learning may be the experience of composing an essay. The first draft is rangy, imprecise. You discover what you want to say by trying to write it. After a couple of revisions you have sharpened the piece and cut away some of the extraneous points. You put it aside to let it ferment. When you pick it up again a day or two later, what you want to say has become clearer in your mind.

first time and then waited some days before they reread it.

when the mind has to work, learning sticks better.

learning: we mean acquiring knowledge and skills and having them readily available from memory so you can make sense of future problems and opportunities.