Learning Strategies Quotes

B students work for C students - A students teach.

I was in high school, trying to get out of high school. The only thing slowing me up was grades.

I'm the type of person, I have to study to get an A on the test.

They know enough who know how to learn.

You stay teachable most by reading books. By reading what other people went through.

Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind.

I study all the greats.

When I went to Spain two years ago, I only knew three Valencia players. I didn't know anything about La Liga, and within six months, I knew everything. I was speaking another language and knew everything about the game, so I am a fast learner.

I was always a good student, but I didn't read that much until I was 18 and I was working my way through college.

Science and math are hard for everybody, and it's usually not a matter or being born gifted at it or not. It's hard work, but it can be a lot of fun!

Knowledge is exploding, so you need to commit yourself to a plan for lifelong learning.

If I had been a good student and an achiever, I might have been excited by a more systematic approach to writing than what I do.

I went to one year of college. I only went to class twice a quarter to pass the tests. I thought it was a waste of time.

Many of you have been reared on the cliche that the purpose of education isn't to stuff your head with facts but to teach you how to think. Wrong.

I have an I.Q. of 100 plus a little bit. I have to work real hard to get things when I read.

Empty heads, cognitive science has taught us, learn nothing. The powerful cultural and personal flexibility of our species is owed at least in part to our starting off so well-informed; we are good learners because we know what to pay attention to and what questions are the right ones to ask.

If the topic be highly abstract, show its nature by concrete examples. If it be unfamiliar, trace some point of analogy in it with the known. If it be inhuman, make it figure as part of a story. If it be difficult, couple its acquisition with some prospect of personal gain. Above all things, make sure that it shall run through certain inner changes, since no unvarying object can possibly hold the mental field for long.

The U.S. has spent billions of dollars on educating and supporting teachers or developing curricula but no resources are applied to 'improving the brain' that a student brings to the classroom.

To teach is part of the very fabric of learning.

I read a lot, but I read about the areas that I'm interested in.

If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.

Over time, I've paid attention, taken notes and forgotten easily half of everything I've gone through.

There is no better way to learn than to teach.

Repetition is the mother of pedagogy

I've taught statistics, math courses and what I've found is that often if you teach them algebraically the formulas, you'll have one group of kids doing well.