Learners Quotes - Page 4

• Learning of all kinds goes on best, lasts best, and tends to lead itself on more when it grows out of a real focus of interest in the learner.

  Carl Rogers

  Real, Focus, Goes On

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• Every learner has special needs.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Learning, Special

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• A teacher in a differentiated classroom does not classify herself as someone who ‘already differentiates instruction.’ Rather that teacher is fully aware that every hour of teaching, every day in the classroom can reveal one more way to make the classroom a better match for its learners.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Teacher, Teaching, Doe

  Carol Ann Tomlinson (2001). “How to Differentiate Instruction in Mixed-Ability Classrooms, 2nd Edition”, p.29, ASCD

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• He is not likely to learn who is not willing to be taught; for the learner has something to do, as well as the teacher.

  Benjamin Whichcote

  Teacher, Learning, Taught

  Benjamin Whichcote, Anthony Tuckney (1753). “Moral and religious aphorisms [collected by J. Jeffery from the papers of B. Whichcote]. Now re-publ., with additions, by S. Salter. To which are added, Eight letters: which passed between dr. Whichcote, and dr. Tuckney”, p.113

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• A disciple is a learner, a student, an apprentice – a practitioner… Disciples of Jesus are people who do not just profess certain views as their own but apply their growing understanding of life in the Kingdom of the Heavens to every aspect of their life on earth.

  Dallas Willard

  Jesus, Views, People

  Dallas Willard (2009). “The Great Omission: Reclaiming Jesus’s Essential Teachings on Discipleship”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• I divide the word into learners and nonlearners. There are people who learn, who are open to what happens around them, who listen, who hear the lessons. When they do something stupid, they don't do it again. And when they do something that works a little bit, they do it even better and harder the next time. The question to ask is not whether you are a success or a failure, but whether you are a learner or a nonlearner.

  Benjamin Barber

  Stupid, People, Littles

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• ... teaching cannot be a process of transference of knowledge from the one teaching to the learner. This is the mechanical transference from which results machinelike memorization, which I have already criticized. Critical study correlates with teaching that is equally critical, which necessarily demands a critical way of comprehending and of realizing the reading of the word and that of the world, the reading of text and of context.

  Paulo Freire

  Teaching, Reading, Learning

  Paulo Freire (2005). “Teachers as Cultural Workers: Letters to Those who Dare Teach”

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• Rather than pushing children to think like adults, we might do better to remember that they are great learners and to try harder to be more like them.

  Seymour Papert

  Children, Thinking, Trying

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• Learners are doers, not recipients.

  Walter J. Ong

  Doers

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• The Learner must be led always from familiar objects toward the unfamiliar, guided along, as it were, a chain of flowers into the mysteries of life.

  Charles Willson Peale

  Flower, Mystery, Chains

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• The question to ask is not whether you are a success or a failure, but whether you are a learner or a nonlearner.

  Benjamin Barber

  Asks

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• Eve was not a born know-all. She was ignorant. But she was a good learner.

  Geoffrey Sampson

  Ignorant, Born, Knows

  Geoffrey Sampson (2005). “The 'Language Instinct' Debate: Revised Edition”, p.25, A&C Black

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• By the time these students enter the workforce, many of the jobs they will apply for ill be in industries that don't even exist yet. That's a hard future to prepare someone for. Teachers have their sights set on the real goal: not to produce Ivy League graduates, but to encourage the development of naturally curious, confident, flexible, and happy learners who are ready for whatever the future has in store.

  Taylor Mali

  Teacher, Jobs, Real

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• I'm more of a creative learner, ... I do very well in projects, but I was not good at memorizing all of that material in the introductory courses.

  Robert Sternberg

  Creative, Projects, Wells

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• Our society cannot afford a two-tiered system in which the affluent have access to superior education, while everyone else is subjected to a dull and incoherent classroom experience. Academic excellence, educational equity, and fairness demand a strong foundation of knowledge for all learners.

  E. D. Hirsch, Jr.

  Inspirational, Education, Strong

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• Will robot teachers replace human teachers? No, but they can complement them. Moreover, the could be sufficient in situations where there is no alternative––to enable learning while traveling, or while in remote locations, or when one wishes to study a topic for which there is not easy access to teachers. Robot teachers will help make lifelong learning a practicality. They can make it possible to learn no matter where one is in the world, no matter the time of day. Learning should take place when it is needed, when the learner is interested, not according to some arbitrary, fixed schedule

  Donald A. Norman

  Teacher, Wish, Robots

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• The most important single factor influencing learning is what the learner already knows. Ascertain this and teach him accordingly.

  David Ausubel

  Teacher, Knowledge, Learning

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• There is no way to help a learner to be disciplined, active, and thoroughly engaged unless he perceives a problem to be a problem or whatever is to-be-learned as worth learning, and unless he plays an active role in determining the process of solution.

  Neil Postman

  Play, Roles, Way

  Neil Postman (2009). “Teaching As a Subversive Activity: A No-Holds-Barred Assault on Outdated Teaching Methods-with Dramatic and Practical Proposals on How Education Can Be Made Relevant to Today's World”, p.71, Delta

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• To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Memories, Philosophy, Monte Cristo

  Alexandre Dumas (1997). “The Count of Monte Cristo”, p.118, Wordsworth Editions

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• Be a learner first, a master second, and a student always.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Education, Firsts, Students

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• When they [visitors to his studio:] learn about the six-week daily-strip deadline and the 12-week Sunday-page deadline, a visitor almost never fails to remark: "Gee, you could work real hard, couldn't you, and get several months ahead and then take the time off?" Being, as I said, a slow learner, it took me until last year to realize what an odd statement that really is. You don't work all of your life to do something so you don't have to do it.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Real, Sunday, Years

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• The alphabet will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls. They will trust the written characters and not remember themselves.

  Socrates

  Character, Soul, Alphabet

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• It is part of the educator's responsibility to see equally to two things: First, that the problem grows out of the conditions of the experience being had in the present, and that it is within the range of the capacity of students; and, secondly, that it is such that it arouses in the learner an active quest for information and for production of new ideas. The new facts and new ideas thus obtained become the ground for further experiences in which new problems are presented.

  John Dewey

  Education, Responsibility, Ideas

  John Dewey (2007). “Experience And Education”, p.79, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm not the angry, rebellious child that I was. You can remain a child for a long time. I certainly did. I was a slow learner.

  Patti Davis

  Children, Long, Rebellious

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• We believe that this initiative is a critical first step in our nation s effort to provide every student with a comprehensive, content rich and complete education. These standards have the potential to support teachers in achieving NEA s purpose of preparing students to thrive in a democratic society and a diverse, changing world as knowledgeable, creative and engaged citizens and lifelong learners.

  Lily Eskelsen Garcia

  Teacher, Educational, Believe

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