Bill Cosby Quotes

Most of us learn to read by looking at each word in a sentence - one at a time.

Fluency is the developmental process that connects decoding with everything we know about words to make the meaning of the text come to life. Fluency is a wonderful bridge to comprehension and to a life-long love of reading.

By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes.

All the children in the school should learn the steps of everything, before they learn the thing, then they know which step they're doing better, because your voice is in certain steps and has to do most of the things that have been composed in those steps.

I think the cardinal rule of learning to write is learning to read first. I learned to write by learning to read.

Let all the time you can get be spent in trying to learn to read.

I don't want to rest on my laurels. I still feel like I'm learning a lot about the golf game and the swing. There are so many different little facets of golf that there is always something to learn.

Practice makes permanent.

I practice reading all the time. I read everything and having so many scripts to read, which really helps out as well.

The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

It has been said that 80% of what people learn is visual.

Learning how to learn is life's most important skill.

Whether it's learning to hit a backhand in tennis, learning high school chemistry, or getting better at ski racing, I really believe with hard work and analytic preparation, you can skip a few steps and find the faster way.

I started juggling a long time ago, but long before that, I was a golfer, and that's what I was: a golfer. And as a golfer and as a kid, one of the things that really sort of seeped into my pores, that I sort of lived my whole life, is process. And it's the process of learning things.

The more you read, the better you get at it.

I guess by taking lessons early on, and really trying to play all the rudimentary stuff, and try to have it sound as good as my teacher. It took a lot of practice, which I enjoyed, and still do.

There's no shortcut to learning a craft; you just have to put the years in.

And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others.

I am a slow reader. I always loved words, which is a strange thing given that I couldn't actually read them.

The use of muscle is only good for running marathons these days. What workers need is a trained mind. Education is the most important thing that needs to be accomplished.

There were a lot of players who gave me suggestions when I was young. At times, they were very good suggestions, and I took them seriously, applied them to my batting, and got success after that.

I re-read the books I assign to my students. Each time I do, I learn something new.

You try to get mental reps through the eyes of others, then it's your job to kind of get your reps through your eyes. So that's kind of what I do.

My very first school was a primary school in Surrey. I remember being taught to read by the traditional ABC, instead of look-say - that is, whole words at a time - which was fashionable when my children were at school.

There is no more important foundational skill than reading.