learning pace Quotes

I was very slow in maths, geometry I actually enjoyed.

Read much, but not too many books.

Don't get me wrong: school is good and all, but school is way too slow for me. Like, super slow. So I didn't want to go. I wanted to learn on my own with real life experiences.

Children are forced to live very rapidly in order to live at all. They are given only a few years in which to learn hundreds of thousands of things about life and the planet and themselves.

I've always been somebody that it takes me longer to learn things, but once I learn them... I'm like a quarterback that plays best in the fourth quarter.

Many students learn best by doing. But because classrooms force the same pace on all students, they limit the degree to which students can truly learn through trial and error. Instead, lectures still force many students to follow material passively and in lockstep pace.

Some kids grasp a subject faster and race ahead to the next level, while others continue to struggle with the first. The great thing we've seen is that if you let a student take his time to master a concept, he will probably race ahead on the next one.

I'm encouraging kids to use computers at their own pace to build aspirations.

A tutor should not be continually thundering instruction into the ears of his pupil, as if he were pouring it through a funnel, but, after having put the lad, like a young horse, on a trot, before him, to observe his paces, and see what he is able to perform, should, according to the extent of his capacity, induce him to taste, to distinguish, and to find out things for himself; sometimes opening the way, at other times leaving it for him to open; and by abating or increasing his own pace, accommodate his precepts to the capacity of his pupil.

You know, sometimes kids get bad grades in school because the class moves too slow for them. Einstein got D's in school. Well guess what, I get F's!!!

When I first began to learn to sing, it took me from three to four months to learn two simple hymns.

You've got to learn a pace that's fast enough to win, but slow enough to finish.

Some people are faster than others; I'm just figuring it out later, that's all. I'm getting smart too late and old too soon.

Minds ripen at very different ages.

There's really no way to fast-track someone because the rate that their brain is able to interpret the information they're getting is on pace with life.

School, for me, was a really, genuinely hard thing. It was hard because l am an artist. You can't send an artist to a place where we learn at a mad slow pace sitting in a class.

I started in high school to be interested in music and from there, I decided to study in college. Yeah, you're right, I did start late, but luckily, because of my schooling, I picked up a lot of ground pretty quick.

A gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years.

The truth is that my chess development was nothing out of the ordinary, and it proceeded probably at a pace no faster than others.

'Late bloomer' is another way of saying 'slow learner.'

Our books approach very slowly the things we most wish to know.

From the time I started school, it was clear to everyone that I wasn't learning at the same pace as other kids.

People learn at the rate they are going to learn.

Children are ready to learn when they are ready to learn, not necessarily when their parents are ready to teach them.