Tony Buzan Quotes

I think that's one of the most important things that books do: not to teach you anything, but to help you teach yourself by just being in the world of the book and having your own thoughts and reactions and noticing your own reactions and thoughts and learning about yourself that way.

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

Learning by doing is the only way I know how to learn.

I think that an artist is a bit like a computer. He receives information from the world around him and from his past and from his own experiences. And it all goes into the brain.

Mind mapping is a technique based on memory and creativity and comprehension and understanding, so when the student or a child uses the mind map, they are using their brain in the way their brain was designed to be used, and so the mind helps them in all learning and cognitive skills. It simply helps them in what the brain does naturally.

The mind of the polyglot is a very particular thing, and scientists are only beginning to look closely at how acquiring a second language influences learning, behavior and the very structure of the brain itself.

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

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.

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

People all learn things differently, and sometimes imagination isn't considered as useful a tool as it can be in the learning process - especially in school in subjects like math and science.

An important verity about knowledge is that the brain works most effectively with consciously retained information. We more easily remember what we want to recall later. When we feed our fourteen billion brain cells with information that will enrich us and help others, we are really learning to Think Big.

Merely to stuff the child with a lot of information, making him pass examinations, is the most unintelligent form of education.

There is only one way to learn... It's through action.

I owe everything to a system that made me learn by heart till I wept. As a result I have thousands of lines of poetry by heart. I owe everything to this.

Learning consists of ideas, and not of the noise that is made by the mouth.

But in the new (math) approach, the important thing is to understand what you're doing, rather than to get the right answer.

If kids are studying for a test, they're not going to learn anything. We all know that from our own experience.

Nothing is more important for teaching us to understand the concepts we have than to construct fictitious ones.

I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who.

The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running. Where it is lacking there are no real students, but only poor caricatures of apprentices who, at the end of their apprenticeship, will not even have a trade.

Being informed is different from being formed, and the first is a common substitute for the second.

To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.

I'm not a fan of technology . I'm a fan of pedagogy, of understanding how people learn and the most effective learning methods. But technology enables some exciting changes.

Our aim is not merely to make the child understand, and still less to force him to memorize, but so to touch his imagination as to enthuse him to his innermost core.

We must not attach knowledge to the mind, we have to incorporate it there.