Joe Rogan Quotes

What I mean is that if you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to someone else. That forces you to sort it out in your mind. And the more slow and dim-witted your pupil, the more you have to break things down into more and more simple ideas. And that's really the essence of programming. By the time you've sorted out a complicated idea into little steps that even a stupid machine can deal with, you've learned something about it yourself... The teacher usually learns more than the pupils. Isn't that true?

I'm always telling my students that if they can't explain what they are doing, to their grandmothers, then they probably don't understand it themselves.

If you can’t explain something simply, you don’t understand it.

If you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to someone else.

To teach is to learn twice.

If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?

It helps you as a person when you're teaching something to somebody to understand it even better.

The saying "He who teaches others, teaches himself" is very true, not only because constant repetition impresses a fact indelibly on the mind, but because the process of teaching itself gives deeper insight into the subject taught.

Be brief, that the mind may catch thy precepts, and the more easily retain them.

A teacher who cannot explain any abstract subject to a child does not himself thoroughly understand his subject; if he does not attempt to break down his knowledge to fit the child's mind, he does not understand teaching.

We learn by teaching.

A successful day for me is when I teach people something. They become enlightened by an idea and learn how to think about it, so that later on when someone says, "Tell me about x, y, z," they don't have to say, "I know this because Tyson told me." No, they'll say, "Here's why it's true because I know and understand it."

There's no idea that can't be explained to a thoughtful 14-year-old. If the thoughtful 14-year-old doesn't get it, it is your fault, not the 14-year-old's.

No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.

If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.

Education is very important. I think I understand education.

Pedagogically, we need definitions and borders. They help us get our heads around what we're talking about.

There is no better way to learn than to teach.

Thinking is the desire to gain reality by means of ideas.

My father never permitted anything which I learnt to degenerate into a mere exercise of memory. He strove to make the understanding not only go along with every step of the teaching but...precede it.

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

Marlo taught me things I thought I knew.

Before I came here I was confused about this subject. Having listened to your lecture I am still confused. But on a higher level.

Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.