“Understanding of truth begins with the acceptance of ignorance”
Source: Mad About Humans: World Maker's Almanac
“And so, just as the humanity of our cadavers asserts itself in nail polish and tattoos, the inverse of humanity emerges in the body's utter lack of response to profound wounds.”
Source: Body of Work: Meditations on Mortality from the Human Anatomy Lab
“In the 1930s, he came up with an approach he calls “earned and deserved.”“I believe, in order to be fair to all students, a teacher must give each individual student the treatment he earns and deserves. The most unfair thing to do is to treat all of them the same.”
Source: You Haven't Taught Until They Have Learned: John Wooden's Teaching Principles And Practices
“Our relationship was forged slowly over time, and strengthened by the combination of the intense fire of his high expectations and my determination to learn. It matured when it became a “learning relationship” and my respect for him caught up with his respect for me.”
Source: You Haven't Taught Until They Have Learned: John Wooden's Teaching Principles And Practices
“There are actually eight laws of learning—Demonstration, Explanation, Imitation, Repetition, Repetition, Repetition, Repetition, and Repetition. The importance of repetition until automaticity cannot be overstated. Repetition is the key to learning. There is absolutely no substitute for repetition. I believe in learning by repetition to the point where everything becomes automatic… the best teacher is repetition, day after day, throughout the season.” - John Wooden”
Source: You Haven't Taught Until They Have Learned: John Wooden's Teaching Principles And Practices
“You haven’t made a fire till it has burned. You haven’t made a dollar till it’s earned. And no teaching has transpired If the child has not acquired. You haven’t taught a child till he has learned.”
Source: You Haven't Taught Until They Have Learned: John Wooden's Teaching Principles And Practices
“Indeed, what says more: the few lines of a tightly written poem or a volume of analytical comments on it? The communicative ability of artifacts depends on how the work of negotiating meaning is distributed between reification and participation.”
Source: Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning, and Identity
“I will spend the rest of my life learning about High Altitude Observatory Diseases (HAOD).”
“Never call yourself a philosopher, nor talk a great deal among the unlearned about theorems, but act conformably to them. Thus, at an entertainment, don’t talk how persons ought to eat, but eat as you ought. For remember that in this manner Socrates also universally avoided all ostentation. And when persons came to him and desired to be recommended by him to philosophers, he took and recommended them, so well did he bear being overlooked. So that if ever any talk should happen among the unlearned concerning philosophic theorems, be you, for the most part, silent. For there is great danger in immediately throwing out what you have not digested. And, if anyone tells you that you know nothing, and you are not nettled at it, then you may be sure that you have begun your business. For sheep don’t throw up the grass to show the shepherds how much they have eaten; but, inwardly digesting their food, they outwardly produce wool and milk. Thus, therefore, do you likewise not show theorems to the unlearned, but the actions produced by them after they have been digested.”
Source: The Enchiridion & Discourses of Epictetus
“Trust me,’ he says with a touch of impatience.
‘Stop asking me to do that,’ I say, equally as impatiently.”
Source: Out of Control