John Selden Quotes

That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.

Teach and practice, practice and teach - that is all we have; that is all we are good for; that is all we ever ought to do.

When you learn a thing, try to use it sufficiently often not to forget it!

Repetition is the father of learning.

Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.

Repetition is the mother of pedagogy

Repetition is the key to real learning.

Something that can never be learnt too thoroughly can never be said too often.

Repetition is the father of learning, I repeat, repetition is the father of learning.

I delight sometimes in saying to - as when I'm a teacher, I love saying, 'This is really important, so don't write it down.' To me, what you retain is a very important filter.

Learn by practice.

Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.

Practice is the best of all instructors.

Repeating is harder than anything else.

Men get opinions as boys learn to spell, by reiteration chiefly.

To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without plowing it.

Repetition may not entertain, but it teaches.

No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.

A mentor, a 'teacher,' is like an editor. I absolutely value my editor, who is my teacher.

To teach is to learn twice.

I love the classroom.

Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

I teach.

I think if you enjoy teaching, if you enjoy talking about your craft, that's probably the best way to do it... because once a player starts to get it, once he figures it out, he'll never forget it.