Greta Gerwig Quotes

I take things in better when I'm allowed to talk, and respond, and engage and move around a bit.

People are visual and hands on learners.

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

When you're too robotic and scripted, the students tune you out. So I always tried to use different learning modalities - kinesthetic, auditory, visual, whatever might bring learning to life.

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

Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Involve me and I understand.

For the most part, boys are very physical. It's not enough for them to be told they have what it takes and they have greatness. They have to discover for themselves. We learn by doing. The doing has to be somewhat physical.

A kid who moves is a kid who learns.

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

I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.

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

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.

I'm an auditory learner, and if you put something into a song, I'll remember it forever.

I think the best learning is done with active manipulation. And we need to be able to work with our hands; it's not just about using our brains.

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 development of the mind comes through movement

Since it is through movement that the will realises itself, we should assist a child in his attempts to put his will into act.

Seeing and playing with physical objects can enable access to symbolic ideas. When I studied physics and math at university it was all done through equations and textbooks whereas artists go to art school and start making stuff; they fling paint at the walls, they dance and bash things together with giant bits of metal. Our society has come to think of science as being a very abstractified thing, and art as being a materialized thing.

You can learn by listening, or by getting whacked between the eyes with a two-by-four. I always found listening easier.

The educative value of manual activities and of laboratory exercises, as well as of play, depends upon the extent in which they aid in bringing about a sensing of the meaning of what is going on. In effect, if not in name, they are dramatizations.

Mental development must be connected with movement and be dependent on it. It is vital that educational theory and practice should be informed by that idea.

Movement, or physical activity, is thus an essential factor in intellectual growth, which depends upon the impressions received from outside. Through movement we come in contact with external reality, and it is through these contacts that we eventually acquire even abstract ideas.

The kids have got their iPads, but they prefer to get out climbing trees and coming out with me. That's the kind of learning I want them to have: experiences.

I've got an awful memory, and I can't read or write, but you can read me a script once or twice, and I've got it.