Jim Evans Quotes

A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

The mere imparting of information is not education.

To learn and to teach, to observe and to do

It is a well known fact that a man learns best that which he endeavors to teach others.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

But as a coach I wanted to keep things from being too complicated.

Education in the past has been too much inspiration and too little information.

First figure out why you want the students to learn the subject and what you want them to know, and the method will result more or less by common sense.

Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.

While we teach, we learn.

The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.

Human education is concerned with certain changes in the intellects, characters and behavior of men, its problems being roughly included under these four topics: Aims, materials, means and methods.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

The process of learning requires not only hearing and applying but also forgetting and then remembering again.

Anyone who teaches knows that you don't really experience a text until you've taught it, in loving detail, with an intelligent and responsive class.

As one who has taught mathematics at all levels of university instruction, I am well aware of the negative attitude of so many students toward the subject. There are many reasons for this, one of them no doubt being the esoteric, dry way in which we teach the subject. We tend to overwhelm our students with formulas, definitions, theorems, and proofs, but we seldom mention the historical evolution of these facts, leaving the impression that these facts were handed to us, like the Ten Commandments, by some divine authority.

I do think observing is important in learning.

By playing, you learn.

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 eight laws of learning are explanation, demonstration, imitation, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition.

I will consistently strive to learn by what I hear, see, and feel. I will write down the important things I learn, and I will do them.

Learning is an active process. We learn by doing.. Only knowledge that is used sticks in your mind.

When you learn through coding, [you're] coding to learn. You're learning it in a meaningful context, and that's the best way of learning things.

What you hear, you forget; what you see, you remember; what you do, you understand.