Adaptive Learning Quotes

Failing, and learning from it, is necessary. Unil you've done it, you're missing an important piece of your creative arsenal.

Making mistakes and learning from them is crucial to winning.

The only way to win is to learn faster than anyone else.

By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education. Psychologist Herbert Gerjuoy of the Human Resources Research Organization phrases it simply: 'The new education must teach the individual how to classify and reclassify information, how to evaluate its veracity, how to change categories when necessary, how to move from the concrete to the abstract and back, how to look at problems from a new direction — how to teach himself. Tomorrow's illiterate will not be the man who can't read; he will be the man who has not learned how to learn.'

One of the brilliant things I realised after I'd left school is that there are so many ways you can learn. I do this best on the job.

Learn to fail with pride - and do so fast and cleanly. Maximise trial and error - by mastering the error part.

I'd like to work with kids in special education - younger kids.

The University brings out all abilities, including incapability.

When you see the poet laureate saying that every child should have read 'Ulysses' and that you're just giving up on children if you think it's elitist - does that include children with special needs or whose first language isn't English?

I don't learn as well, I think, in like a structured way. I kind of have to be thrown into it.

A free curiosity is more effective in learning than a rigid discipline.

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

Do not be afraid of mistakes, provided you do not make the same one twice.

I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.

I just tried to build on my failures.

I don't think we will put higher-ed out of business. I think we'll evolve it. More access, higher quality, lower costs, more global reach.

But there's no substitute for getting smarter faster. And the way you get smarter is to screw around vigorously. Try stuff. See what works. See what fails miserably. Learn. Rinse. Repeat.

It’s necessary but not sufficient to learn and then work. You must learn from the work and learn while you work.

The ideal direction is using something like Khan Academy for every student to work at their own pace, to master concepts before moving on, and then the teacher using Khan Academy as a tool so that you can have a room of 20 or 30 kids all working on different things, but you can still kind of administrate that chaos.

Studying doesn't have to happen in a silo. It can be a social experience. You can engage with your friends and family to find out the answer to a tough question or have someone explain it to you. You can also study anywhere you happen to be and on any device.

Formal education must change. It needs to be brought into closer alignment with the world as it actually is, into closer harmony with the way human beings actually learn and thrive.

The answer is not to standardize education, but to personalize and customize it to the needs of each child and community. There is no alternative. There never was.

Any piece of knowledge I acquire today has a value at this moment exactly proportional to my skill to deal with it. Tomorrow, when I know more, I recall that piece of knowledge and use it better.

Never ask yourself what you have learned... only ask yourself what are the circumstances which are different from last year. In that way, you can apply last year's lessons.

Universities have come to realize that online is not a fad. The question is not whether to engage in this area but how to do it.