Guided Learning Quotes

These are two different exercises. One of them is, "You don't know and I know, so just shut up and listen," and the other one is, you're curious and you're learning, and I have a way where you can learn this so you'll know it as well. And when you know it, and know why you know it, then you don't have to reference me ever again because you take ownership of the knowledge, and you can then share it with someone else.

An educator never says what he himself thinks, but only that which he thinks it is good for those whom he is educating to hear.

A teacher is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to the truth that each student must find for himself.

The essence of education is not to transfer knowledge; it is to guide the learning process, to put responsibility for study in the student's own hands...[and] place people on their own path of discovery and invention.

I'm better learning by somebody showing me something. I got to see and then do it. You can't be scared to ask for help.

A child knows when they are on the receiving end of a didactic exercise, or when they are sitting in the shadow of something else.

As a teacher, I can help my students see what is working and not working. I can show them certain solutions. I can guide them to books that will serve as role models. Largely, though, one learns to write almost like developing muscle memory, and this requires years of effort.

No man is born wise; but wisdom and virtue require a tutor; though we can easily learn to be vicious without a master.

Everything I ever learned I was told by someone else.

I've always looked for ways to inspire people, especially young people, to play guitar. When I first saw Fretlight, I immediately connected with the vision. Today's kids expect technology to help them on their journey, and that's exactly what Fretlight does.

Like they say, you can learn more from a guide in one day than you can in three months fishing alone.

Erik Seidel ended up introducing me to some of the best players in the world, a few of whom also agreed to take me on to coach me. So I had access to the best poker minds in the world to help me study and figure things out.

It is necessary for the teacher to guide the child without letting him feel her presence too much, so that she may always be ready to supply the desired help, but may never be the obstacle between the child and his experience.

Profound changes to how children access vast information is yielding new forms of peer-to-peer and individual-guided learning.

I'm not smart enough to play 'Dungeons & Dragons.' Maybe if someone were to take me by the hand and slowly and carefully walk me through.

You can't show someone how to play the drums in six weeks, but you can point them in the right direction.

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.

What we now call school training, the pursuit of fixed studies at stated hours under the constant guidance of a teacher, I could scarcely be said to have enjoyed.

I love to be directed, and I can glean something from almost anyone.

I think the greatest way to learn is to learn by someone's example.

The interesting thing about the TLC network is that they were interested in following me, not leading me.