Learning Order Quotes

I learned to read music before I learned to read script.

If there be an order in which the human race has mastered its various kinds of knowledge, there will arise in every child an aptitude to acquire these kinds of knowledge in the same order. So that even were the order intrinsically indifferent, it would facilitate education to lead the individual mind through the steps traversed by the general mind. But the order is not intrinsically indifferent; and hence the fundamental reason why education should be a repetition of civilization in little.

I was able to read a movie before I was able to read a book.

Specialized management courses are useful but should come well after the complexity of management and business are understood.

I think I learned how to swim before I could walk.

In all this process of acquiring conceptions, a certain instinctive order is followed. There is a native tendency to assimilate certain kinds of conception at one age, and other kinds of conception at a later age.

Now begin in the middle, and later learn the beginning; the end will take care of itself.

Don't assume the world evolved in the order in which you discovered it.