Melinda Gates Quotes

I don't learn as well, I think, in like a structured way. I kind of have to be thrown into it.

I'm a guy that, I like to learn by seeing things.

Kids can learn a lot by seeing things rather than reading it.

People learn more if they're learning in directly engaging ways.

It is not true that I invented what is called the Montessori Method... I have studied the child; I have taken what the child has given me and expressed it, and that is what is called the Montessori Method.

Many students learn best by doing. But because classrooms force the same pace on all students, they limit the degree to which students can truly learn through trial and error. Instead, lectures still force many students to follow material passively and in lockstep pace.

I've always been a very observant person, a visual person. That's my way of learning. Things on paper, notes and things like that, don't help me the same way as watching things live.

Learning by doing is the only way I know how to learn.

Tell me, I forget, show me, I remember, involve me, I understand.

I always believe that a person can learn so much by just jumping into something and trying to do it rather than having someone else teach you everything.

Learners are encouraged to discover facts and relationships for themselves.

The drills we do, where you're telling kids to memorize things, don't actually work. What works is engaging them and letting them do things and discover things.

I'm better learning by somebody showing me something. I got to see and then do it. You can't be scared to ask for help.

There is a certain amount you can learn from reading, but you also need to see and experience things.

People are visual and hands on learners.

Like all great teachers he knew that a picture is worth a thousand words and that people learn most quickly by doing something or seeing something done.

The secret of sound education is to get each pupil to learn for himself, instead of instructing him by driving knowledge into him on a stereotyped system.

I'm more of a creative learner, ... I do very well in projects, but I was not good at memorizing all of that material in the introductory courses.

Well, part of it is a longstanding belief - it's been in our education establishment at least since the 1930s - that somehow children should be allowed to discover knowledge for themselves, that they should construct their own knowledge. This has surfaced most recently in connection with mathematics instruction, where the idea is that they need to discover how to add for themselves. Rather than being taught how to add, they should construct this knowledge on their own.

I'm a physical learner. I learn from writing drafts, not reading them.

The Montessori Method- learning by doing-once again became my stock in trade.

Tell me and I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'll understand.

Whatever I learned reading 'Scientific American,' nothing can finally compete with your own observations.

My favorite way of learning for acting has been doing it, not talking about it.

You can go to school and learn and that works for some people. But I think the best kind of learning is practical and learning on the job.