Learners Quotes - Page 7

• Develop into a lifelong self-learner through voracious reading; cultivate curiosity and strive to become a little wiser every day.

  Charlie Munger

  Reading, Self, Curiosity

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• Translation is a two-edged instrument: it has the special purpose of demonstrating the learner's knowledge of the foreign language, either as a form of control or to exercise his intelligence in order to develop his competence.

  Peter Newmark

  Exercise, Order, Two

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• I'm a very tactile learner, so I need analog index cards, moving them all about, trying out various sequences for the book's architecture.

  Joshua Mohr

  Moving, Book, Trying

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When a learner, in the fullness of his powers, comes to great truths unstaled by premature familiarity, he rejoices in the lateness of his lessons.

  George Iles

  Education, Truth, Science

  George Iles (1918). “Canadian Stories”

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• I wrote two million words of crap. Maybe I'm just a slow learner .

  Charles Stross

  Two, Crap, Millions

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• I believe that teaching is a creative art in which evidence based knowledge is applied toward meeting the learning goals of learners. I believe that effective teaching is often the spark that ignites the imagination, possibility, and promise for learners, including the teacher.

  Barbara Paterson

  Teacher, Art, Believe

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• It is glorious to become a learner again at my time of life.

  Bruno Walter

  Glorious, My Time

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• The close observer soon discovers that the teacher's task is not to implant facts but to place the subject to be learned in front of the learner and, through sympathy, emotion, imagination, and patience, to awaken in the learner the restless drive for answers and insights which enlarge the personal life and give it meaning.

  Nathan M. Pusey

  Life, Teacher, Learning

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• The education situation which most effectively promotes significant learning is one in which (1) threat to the self of the learner is reduced to a minimum and (2) differential perception of the field of experience is facilitated

  Carl Rogers

  Self, Feminist, Perception

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• As educators, our challenge is to match the needs of our learners to a world that is changing with great rapidity. To meet this challenge, we need to become strategic learners ourselves by deliberately expanding our perspectives and updating our approaches.

  Heidi Hayes Jacobs

  Perspective, Challenges, Needs

  Heidi Hayes Jacobs (2010). “Curriculum 21: Essential Education for a Changing World”, p.7, ASCD

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• Just as we're all students throughout life, we're all teachers. In fact, we learn best by offering what we desire for ourselves to as many individuals as we can, as frequently as we can.....Following this line of thinking, it's imperative that we make deliberate effort to increase our inspirational energy, as this will lead us to being both a spiritual learner and teacher simultaneously.

  Wayne Dyer

  Life, Spiritual, Teacher

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• Whenever learners or those beyond learning awaken the mind, for the first time they plant one buddha-nature. Working with the four elements and five clusters, if they practice sincerely they attain enlightenment. Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment. This is because the four elements and five clusters and plants, trees, fences and walls are fellow students; because they are of the same essence, because they are the same mind and the same life, because they are the same body and the same mechanism.

  Dogen

  Life, Wall, Essence

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• Show me a dog who still cannot perform a task after it has been trained over and over again, and I'll tell you who the slow learner is.

  Barry McDonald

  Dog, Training, Tasks

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• The word constructionism is a mnemonic for two aspects of the theory of science education underlying this project. From constructivist theories of psychology we take a view of learning as a reconstruction rather than as a transmission of knowledge. Then we extend the idea of manipulative materials to the idea that learning is most effective when part of an activity the learner experiences as constructing a meaningful product.

  Seymour Papert

  Meaningful, Views, Ideas

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• This is a very challenging moment for educators. Our children are headed for a much more networked existence, one that allows for learning to occur 24, 7, 365, one that renders physical space much less important for learning, one that will challenge the relevance of classrooms as currently envisioned, and one that challenges our roles as teachers and adult learners.

  Will Richardson

  Teacher, Children, Space

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• Let the main object... to seek and to find a method of instruction, by which teachers may teach less, but learners learn more.

  John Amos Comenius

  Teacher, Teaching, Learning

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• I'm committed to the idea that one of the few things human beings have to offer is the richness of unconscious and conscious emotional responses to being alive. ... The kind of esteem that's given to brightness/smartness obliterates average people or slow learners from participating fully in human life, particularly technical and intellectual life. But you cannot exclude any human being from emotional participation.

  Ntozake Shange

  Emotional, Ideas, Average

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• A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.

  Seneca the Younger

  Library, Wander, Confined

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• I think as soon as I figured out - and this must have been incredibly young - that comic books were made by humans, rather than being natural phenomenon likes trees or rocks, I just wanted to be one of the people who did that. So I was copying all kinds of cartoons that I was reading, comic books, and eventually learned how to draw cartoon books step-by-step and just, I don't know, I'm not an especially quick learner, but I sure was a dedicated one.

  Art Spiegelman

  Book, Reading, Thinking

  "Art Spiegelman’s Life in the 'Shadow of Maus'". Interview with Eric Wuestewald, www.motherjones.com. January 6, 2014.

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• When I first became really interested in building furniture, I went to Toys-R-Us, and spent $200 on Transformers toys. By taking the toys apart and studying how they moved, I was able to figure out how to hide a table leaf, what type of contraption I'd need to slide it under the table. I'm a really visual learner.

  Jeremiah Brent

  Needs, Tables, Firsts

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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• I hire talented, creative, passionate learners who have a history of turning intention into reality.

  Jeff Henderson

  Leadership, Christian, Reality

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• We, however, want to become those we are--human beings who are new, unique, incomparable, who give themselves laws, who create themselves. To that end we must become the best learners and discoverers of everything that is lawful and necessary in the world: we must become physicists in order to be able to be creators in this sense--while hitherto all valuations and ideals have been based on ignorance of physics or were constructed so as to contradict it. Therefore: long live physics! And even more so that which compels us to turn to physics--our honesty!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Honesty, Ignorance, Unique

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• One of the major challenges facing creative individuals is that of building upon the continuity of human knowledge while achieving novel insights. ... On the one hand, to intensify an inquiry and develop a sense of commitment to a creative life, the learner needs models, teachers, and collaborators. On the other hand, the individual, while building upon the past, needs to transform it, and thus broaden his or her choices.

  Vera John-Steiner

  Teacher, Commitment, Creativity

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• Reading a book should be a conversation between you and the author. Presumably he knows more about the subject than you do; if not, you probably should not be bothering with his book. But understanding is a two-way operation; the learner has to question himself and question the teacher, once he understands what the teacher is saying. Marking a book is literally an expression of your differences or your agreements with the author. It is the highest respect you can pay him.

  Mortimer Adler

  Teacher, Book, Reading

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• it is perfectly possible to converse with any cat, from prize-winning Siamese to alley tabby. Humans who are slow learners may start with a highly articulate Siamese and progress in time to the more sensitive and difficult business of talking to scared strays. Other people, naturally gifted, can talk to any cat right away.

  Patricia Moyes

  Cat, Winning, Talking

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