Tony Buzan Quotes

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

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

The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.

People simply learn to process information to the point where it doesn't serve true creativity.

I think every day you try to soak up as much as you can to learn and understand things better.

Education in the past has been too much inspiration and too little information.

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.

I can't talk about anything or write about anything if I don't understand it. So a lot of the stuff that I go through and a lot of the time that I spend is understanding.

The process of learning requires not only hearing and applying but also forgetting and then remembering again.

How we learn has nothing to do with how brilliant we are.

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

The human being acquires a habit of learning. He learns to learn.

I do think observing is important in learning.

I like to consume information. I like to learn.

Do you think it is possible to increase your intellectual ability? For decades, I have studied the power of this belief to become reality and watched as the concept of maintaining a 'growth mindset' has taken root in education and parenting circles.

What is education but a process by which a person begins to learn how to learn?

Teachers may think they are stuffing minds, but all they are ever affecting is the memory. Nothing can ever be forced into anyone's mind except by brainwashing, which is the very opposite of genuine teaching.

Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind. The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another.

Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment.

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

I think you never stop learning.

You have to be literate in today's world. We're not going to get away with not teaching boys to read.