Learning Constraints Quotes

Many students learn best by doing. But because classrooms force the same pace on all students, they limit the degree to which students can truly learn through trial and error. Instead, lectures still force many students to follow material passively and in lockstep pace.

You can't teach passion. You can teach everything else.

Lecturers should remember that the capacity of the mind to absorb is limited to what the seat can endure.

If you lock me in the room with a piano teacher for a year I might be able to knock out a rendition of 'Roll Out The Barrel,' but will I ever be a concert pianist? No.

Even those to whom Providence has allotted greater strength of understanding, can expect only to improve a single science. In every other part of learning, they must be content to follow opinions, which they are not able to examine; and, even in that which they claim as peculiarly their own, can seldom add more than some small particle of knowledge, to the hereditary stock devolved to them from ancient times, the collective labour of a thousand intellects.

All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves.

A successful learner, . . . must be constrained to draw some conclusions from the input and not others.