learning theories Quotes

Education is one of the subjects which most essentially require to be considered by various minds, and from a variety of points of view. For, of all many-sided subjects, it is the one which has the greatest number of sides.

Nothing important is learned; it is simply remembered.

[T]eaching has been for me an education (Lord knows what it has been for my students).

What a teacher needs to know about psychology "might almost be written on the palm of one's hand."

Psychology is a science, and teaching is an art; and sciences never generate arts directly out of themselves.

As few subjects are more interesting to society, so few have been more frequently written upon than the education of youth.

It is only the fundamental conceptions of psychology which are of real value to a teacher.

All learning is remembering. A good teacher causes students to remember what they already know.

Almost everyone who has claimed to know what kids need to learn or how they learn has turned out to be wrong.

My teaching exists in a different part of my brain. However, I am lucky enough to teach very smart graduate students.

To know psychology, therefore, is absolutely no guarantee that we shall be good teacher.

He had made a passionate study of education, only to come, gradually, to the knowledge that education is nothing but the process of building up, gradually, a complete unit of consciousness. And each unit of consciousness is the living unit of that great social, religious, philosophic idea towards which humankind, like an organism seeking its final form, is laboriously growing.

It is difficult to connect general principles with such thoroughly concrete things as children.