I don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding; they learn by some other way - by rote, or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!
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.
I've never been a big believer in formal education.
When I was 12, I wanted to learn how to play the guitar, and I found a chord book in a shop, and I stuffed it down my trousers. And that's how I learned to play the guitar.
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.
If I had been a good student and an achiever, I might have been excited by a more systematic approach to writing than what I do.
Long is the road to learning by precepts, but short and successful by examples.
We put [young children] into kindergarten where their reasoning powers are ruined; or, if we can afford it, we buy Montessori outfits that were invented for semi-imbeciles in Italian slums; or we send them to outdoor schools and give them prizes for sleeping.
We learn by observation, imitation and repetition.
The eight laws of learning are explanation, demonstration, imitation, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition.
Men trust rather to their eyes than to their ears; the effect of precepts is therefore slow and tedious, whilst that of examples is summary and effectual.
I can't remember ever being told how to ride.
My favorite way of learning for acting has been doing it, not talking about it.
I took lessons for about everything you could imagine - gymnastics to karate to flute and piano. My mom always definitely kept me in some kind of class or program, but for guitar, I kinda gave up on then kinda just taught myself. Same thing with piano. I've never been good with following lessons.
There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.
People learn twenty-five percent from their teacher, twenty-five percent from listening to themselves, twenty-five percent from their friends, and twenty-five percent from time.
I think books make you think in a different way than movies and documentaries.
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.
Anything that is worth teaching can be presented in many different ways. These multiple ways can make use of our multiple intelligences.
What is twice read is commonly better remembered that what is transcribed.
Scientists learn about the world in three ways: They analyze statistical patterns in the data, they do experiments, and they learn from the data and ideas of other scientists. The recent studies show that children also learn in these ways.
We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.
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.
In our education system, we are taught to munch figures and remember them for lifetime. But does it help? We are not taught how to make decisions.
