My Personal Theory of Learning

by Laura Knighton

You learn something every day if you pay attention. ~Ray LeBlond

Over time, students move forward in their learning when they can use personal knowledge to construct meaning, have skills of self-monitoring to realize that they dont understand something, and have ways of deciding what to do next. ~Lorna Earl

"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 the thoughts of other men." ~John Dewey

The secret to education is respecting the pupil. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. ~Henry Brooks Adams

You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives. ~Clay P. Bedford

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn. ~C.S. Lewis

Give me a fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own correction. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself. ~Vilfredo Pareto

Self-belief does not necessarily ensure success, but self-disbelief assuredly spawns failure. ~Albert Bandura

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The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Learning is not attained by chance; it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence. ~Abigail Adams

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Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. ~Albert Einstein

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Too often we give our children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. ~Roger Lewin

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All knowledge is connected to other knowledge. The fun is in making the connections. ~Arthur Aufderheide

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You cant direct the wind, but you can adjust the sails. ~Anonymous

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Teaching is the highest form of understanding. ~Aristotle

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When one teaches, two learn. ~Robert Half

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I hear, and I forget. I see, and I remember. I do, and I understand. ~Chinese Proverb

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To make an individual metacognitively aware is to ensure that the individual has learned how to learn. ~Howard Gardner

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It takes constant practice and reinforcement, in terms of our cognitive development of our brain. ~Daniel Collins

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That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the task itself has become easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The illiterate of the 21st Century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. ~Alvin Toffler

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What the child can do in cooperation today, he can do alone tomorrow. ~Lev Vygotsky

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If a child cant learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn. ~Ignacio Estrada

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