Active Learning Quotes

All learning is in the learner, not in the teacher.

It's the way I study - to understand something by trying to work it out or, in other words, to understand something by creating it. Not creating it one hundred percent, of course; but taking a hint as to which direction to go but not remembering the details. These you work out for yourself.

These are two different exercises. One of them is, "You don't know and I know, so just shut up and listen," and the other one is, you're curious and you're learning, and I have a way where you can learn this so you'll know it as well. And when you know it, and know why you know it, then you don't have to reference me ever again because you take ownership of the knowledge, and you can then share it with someone else.

Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.

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

Learning is not watching a video, learning is taking action and seeing what happens.

A kid who moves is a kid who learns.

I have been in schools around the country, and I have written on education for years. Once, I was once doing a profile on Justice William Brennan and I was in his chambers, and Brennan asked, "How do we get the words of the Bill of Rights into the lives of the students?" Well, it is not difficult. You tell them stories.

That is the way to learn the most, that when you are doing something with such enjoyment that you don't notice that the time passes.

I always believe that a person can learn so much by just jumping into something and trying to do it rather than having someone else teach you everything.

You're not going to learn how to do it until you do it.

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

You only learn if you're given a crack at things.

I knew a man who grabbed a cat by the tail and learned forty percent more about cats than the man who didn't.

The teacher's role in discussion is to keep it going along fruitful lines - be moderating, guiding, correcting and arguing like one more students.

It's the student who makes the teacher, not the other way around.

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.

For what one has to learn to do, we learn by doing.

Working through experience is best for me, just being there and trying to get into the mode.

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Teaching is all armchair. I learn about writing by writing and thinking about what I've written and throwing it away.

The essence of education is not to transfer knowledge; it is to guide the learning process, to put responsibility for study in the student's own hands...[and] place people on their own path of discovery and invention.

You can’t get intelligence by sitting and saying nothing.

Actually, all education is self-education. A teacher is only a guide, to point out the way, and no school, no matter how excellent, can give you education. What you receive is like the outlines in a child’s coloring book. You must fill in the colors yourself.

I take things in better when I'm allowed to talk, and respond, and engage and move around a bit.