Edmund Burke Quotes

We learn by observation, imitation and repetition.

Man is an imitative animal. This quality is the germ of all education in him. From his cradle to his grave he is learning to do what he sees others do.

Fathers and mothers, do not forget that children learn more by the eye than they do by the ear... Imitation is a far stronger principle with children than memory. What they see has a much stronger effect on their minds than what they are told.

I believe really strongly in imitation, actually: I think it's the first place you need to go to if you're going to be able to understand how something works. True mimicry is actually quite difficult.

I've learned that you learn best by modeling. If you want people to learn, do it!

There is a huge value in learning with instant feedback.

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

We are trying to learn from the consequences of one's peers' actions.

When I was growing up I would always watch the more experienced players to see what they were doing and why they were doing it.

I truly believe children learn by examples much more than what you can teach them verbally.

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

Every athlete learns by theft and mimicry.

One pretends to do something, or copy someone or some teacher, until it can be done confidently and easily in what becomes one's own style

You learn best by reading a lot and writing a lot, and the most valuable lessons of all are the ones you teach yourself.

Fools are apt to imitate only the defects of their betters.

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

Men trust rather to their eyes than to their ears; the effect of precepts is therefore slow and tedious, whilst that of examples is summary and effectual.

We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.

Habit and imitation--there is nothing more perennial in us than these two. They are the source of all working, and all apprenticeship, of all practice, and all learning, in this world.

Children (nay, and men too) do most by example.

Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.

Acquiring knowledge is a form of imitation.

I learn everything I play by listening to somebody else.

Imitation is the first instinct of the awakening mind.

I believe that we learn by practice.