Education Teaching Learning Knowledge Schooling

Jun 28, 2011 04:52 PM

NOTE:  This section has to do with learning in school and education and teaching: formal didactics ....

This is DISTINCT from LEARNING in neuroscience and experimental psychology

(as in reinforcement learning, concept learning etc... that deserves its OWN section under

neuroscience and cognit psyc and neural nets)

09:27 PM, August 08, 2007

Old Hebrew Proverb:

there are five steps to learning: silence, listening, memory, practice, teaching others

09:49 PM, June 25, 2007

Carl Rogers:  The basic idea behind teaching is to teach people what they need to know .

Bayesian statistics is difficult in the sense that thinking is difficult. -- Donald A. Berry (Teaching Elementary Bayesian Statistics with Real Applications in Science)

Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom. --  George William Curtis <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_William_Curtis>

The palest ink is more durable than the strongest memory

By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. --  Confucius <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confucius> (Kong Fu Zi) (See also  To Learn Writing <rsquotes_B.html> .)

Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads: ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders, compulsive voyagers, ignorant generals - the flotsam and jetsam of historical currents. The men who radically altered history, the great scientists and mathematicians, are seldom mentioned, if at all. --  Martin Gardner <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Gardner>

The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence . --  Robert J. Shiller <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Shiller> (Irrational Exuberance, 2000)

The ability to learn faster than your competitors may be the only sustainable competitive advantage. --  Arie de Geus <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arie_De_Geus> (Royal Dutch/Shell, in The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of The Learning Organization, by  Peter Senge <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Tracy> , 1990)

The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact but of values. --  William Ralph Inge <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Ralph_Inge> (The Training of the Reason, in Cambridge Essays on Education, by A. C. Benson, 1917)

The aim of education should be to teach us rather  how to think than what to think - rather  to improve our minds , so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men. -- Bill Beattie

All genuine learning is active, not passive . It involves   the use of the mind, not just the memory .  It is the process of discovery in which the student is the main agent, not the teacher. --  Mortimer Adler <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortimer_Adler>

All intellectual improvement arises from leisure . --  James Boswell <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Boswell> (Life of Samuel Johnson, 1791)

All you have to do to educate a child is leave them alone and teach them to read. The rest is brainwashing. --  Ellen Gilchrist <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Gilchrist>

An individual's self-concept is the core of his personality. It affects every aspect of human behavior: the ability to learn, the capacity to grow and change. A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success in life. --  Joyce Brothers <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joyce_Brothers>

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery. -- Mark Van Doren

The Art of Thinking is the art of   being one's self and this art can only be learned if one is  by one's self . -- Ernest Dimnet (The Art of Thinking, 1928)

As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life. --  Benjamin Disraeli <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Disraeli>

The  authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn . --  Marcus Tullius Cicero <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicero>

The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. --  Eric Hoffer <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Hoffer>

Certain subjects yield a general power that may be applied in any direction and should be studied by all. --  John Locke <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Locke>

Chance favors the trained mind. --  Louis Pasteur <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Pasteur>

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child. --  George Santayana <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Santayana>

Cleverness is not wisdom. --  Euripides <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euripides>

Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual. --  Arthur Koestler <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Koestler>

Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning. --  Claude Bernard <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Bernard>

Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun. -- Mary Lou Cook

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