Repetition is the mother of skill.
We learn by observation, imitation and repetition.
Repetition is the mother of pedagogy
The British system had requirements, including Latin. I'm not positive you ever had to know Greek, but there are certainly kinds of curricula where you had to know Greek too. I think in Britain there was the most mindless, repetitive sort of learning.
People who've been through our educational system, they think they're thinking, when they're just repeating like parrots.
Most subjects at universities are taught for no other purpose than that they may be re-taught when the students become teachers.
Repetition is important in the training not only of animals but also of humans.
It's all about concentration and repetition. That's all it is.
Tenacious practice, practice, practice is crucial for excellence; rote repetition is underrated in America.
What? Was man made a wheel-work to wind up, And be discharged, and straight wound up anew? No! grown, his growth lasts; taught, he ne'er forgets: May learn a thousand things, not twice the same.
The importance of repetition until automaticity cannot be overstated. Repetition is the key to learning.
Practice every time you get a chance.
Is it not dangerous to have students study together for years, copying the same models and approximately the same path?
My kid is seven years old and is learning to read and conjugate, but I don't agree with that kind of education because I feel that the concepts are not contextualized... it's interesting to try to make my kid a reflective boy, rather than just a repetitive boy, even if he doesn't agree with me.
Design, refine and repeat, and keep learning all the way along. It sounds bland and pedestrian, but in fact, it's the reverse.
I think, in any sort of medium, repetition makes you better at your trade.
We tend to believe in the modern secular world that if you tell someone something once, they'll remember it. ... Religions go, "Nonsense. You need to keep repeating the lesson 10 times a day. So get on your knees and repeat it." That's what all religions tell us: "Get on your knees and repeat it 10 or 20 or 15 times a day." Otherwise our minds are like sieves.
