Jake Barton Quotes

People are visual and hands on learners.

Kids can learn a lot by seeing things rather than reading it.

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

The drills we do, where you're telling kids to memorize things, don't actually work. What works is engaging them and letting them do things and discover things.

Like all great teachers he knew that a picture is worth a thousand words and that people learn most quickly by doing something or seeing something done.

Crucial to science education is hands-on involvement: showing, not just telling; real experiments and field trips and not just 'virtual reality.'

When you're too robotic and scripted, the students tune you out. So I always tried to use different learning modalities - kinesthetic, auditory, visual, whatever might bring learning to life.

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

Tell me, I forget, show me, I remember, involve me, I understand.

A practical part of my teaching is to provide demonstrative, hands-on experiences.

I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.

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

You can learn by listening, or by getting whacked between the eyes with a two-by-four. I always found listening easier.

Learning by doing, peer-to-peer teaching, and computer simulation are all part of the same equation.

Participation, I think, or one of the best methods of educating.

If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve.

The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.

I didn't learn a lot from books. I learned a lot from movies.

My favorite way of learning for acting has been doing it, not talking about it.

I see no reason why there still are large lectures in universities throughout the world. When people gather, they should be interactive, problem-solving, and experimenting; not passively listening.

There is a certain amount you can learn from reading, but you also need to see and experience things.

The point is that whatever one is trying to learn, it is necessary to have firsthand experience, rather than learning from books or from teachers or by merely conforming to an already established pattern.

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

What you hear, you forget; what you see, you remember; what you do, you understand.

It is much better to learn the elements of geology, of botany, or ornithology and astronomy by word of mouth from a companion than dully from a book.