Robert Sternberg Quotes

I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.

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

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.

Seriously, who really cares how long the Nile river is, or who was the first to discover cheese? How is memorizing that ever going to help anyone? Instead, we need to give kids projects that allow them to exercise their minds and discover things for themselves.

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

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.

I've always been a creative workaholic. I have never had a period of my life where I didn't have at least half a dozen projects going on at once.

The best way to learn is live, in person, cooking, feeling, smelling and tasting, but TV is the second-best thing to that; it's a halfway facsimile.

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

The primary difference that I have found between the system of education in India and other countries, particularly the U.S., is that they focus on problem solving and relating theories to reality around them. These two things are lacking in the education system in India.

I'm not really capable of memorizing stuff without moving around, that's how I do it.

Doing real world projects is, I think, the best way to learn and also to engage the world and find out what the world is all about.

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

I believe that the best way to help people understand the world is to provide them with opportunities to actively explore, experiment, and express themselves.

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.

I went to an inner-city school in Buffalo. We had no money. But our teachers believed in hands-on active learning - there was a mandatory science fair, which was critical.

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

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

Not every child learns the same way. I could not learn through my eyes. Reading was impossible. Math, to compute it in my mind, was impossible. I learned everything through listening.

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.

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.

My learning process has always been very idea-oriented. I never sat down with a book being like, 'OK, now I'm going to learn about transistors.' Instead I had an idea that I really liked and learned as I was trying to figure out how to build it.

Responsive and responsible leaders in governments and businesses must act and collaborate to expedite change, implementing innovative, experiential, and project-based educational approaches.

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

Long is the road to learning by precepts, but short and successful by examples.