Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
The Spirit is not given to make Bible study needless, but to make it effective.
I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Learning consists of ideas, and not of the noise that is made by the mouth.
Reason, if consulted with, would advise, that their children's time should be spent in acquiring what might be useful to them when they come to be men, rather than to have their heads stuff'd with a deal of trash, a great part whereof they usually never do ('tis certain they never need to) think on again as long as they live: and so much of it as does stick by them they are only the worse for.
A free curiosity is more effective in learning than a rigid discipline.
Long is the road to learning by precepts, but short and successful by examples.
It is of no use to commit whole pages to memory, merely to recite them once without hesitation; you must think of the meaning more than the words - of the ideas more than the language.
The eight laws of learning are explanation, demonstration, imitation, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition.
In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.
He who laughs most, learns best.
The great art to learn much is to undertake a little at a time.
Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game's two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself.
If we truly want to learn, we never learn when we are talking. We only learn when we are listening.
Education cannot be effective unless it helps a child to open up himself to life.
Pain prompts us to change behavior that is destructive to ourselves or to others. Pain can be a highly effective instructor.
...it's not just learning that's important. It's learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things that matters.
Few things have more impact than nutrition on a child's ability to survive, learn effectively and escape a life of poverty.
What I did by virtue of skipping a lot of classes was get two undergraduate degrees and a master's in four years. It wasn't slacking. There were much more productive ways of learning everything than sitting in lectures.
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.
Learning by doing is the only way I know how to learn.
There is only one way to learn... It's through action.
The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
I'd say I learned a lot. It's all about whether or not I can apply it.
