Sequential Learning Quotes

You cannot learn to fly by flying. First you must learn to walk, to run, to climb, to dance.

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

We all learn best in our own ways. Some people do better studying one subject at a time, while some do better studying three things at once. Some people do best studying in structured, linear way, while others do best jumping around, surrounding a subject rather than traversing it. Some people prefer to learn by manipulating models, and others by reading.

Dont run before you can walk

Each movement is only learned after you've perfected the one before it.

Do not wish to jump immediately from the streams to the sea, because one has to go through easier things to the more difficult.

Private Victory precedes Public Victory. Algebra comes before calculus.

Thus each truth discovered was a rule available in the discovery of subsequent ones.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Maths is like a ladder - if you miss the first few rungs, you can't jump up, so start with the basics.

...there must be a sequence to learning, that perseverance and a certain measure of perspiration are indispensable, that individual pleasures must frequently be submerged in the interests of group cohesion, and that learning to be critical and to think conceptually and rigorously do not come easily to the young but are hard-fought victories.

Children learne to creepe ere they can learne to goe.

Each succeeding day is the scholar of that which went before it.

Once we know the number one, we believe that we know the number two, because one plus one equals two. We forget that first we must know the meaning of plus.

Any book is better than no book. Slowly, surely, one will lead you to another, which will lead you to the best.

If you miss one day in physics, that's it.

The way history is currently taught in schools, jumping from Hitler to the Henrys, is like a nightmare vision of Star Wars, where you have episode four before you have episode one. The sense of going on a journey, of chronology and continuity, is incredibly important to the imagination.

Learn the ABC of science before you try to ascend to its summit.

Even within traditional universities there has always been debate about whether it wouldn't be better to focus on only one course at a time.