“Most learning is not the result of instruction. It is rather the result of unhampered participation in a meaningful setting. Most people learn best by being "with it," yet school makes them identify their personal, cognitive growth with elaborate planning and manipulation.” PeopleSchoolGrowthResultsTechnologyLearningTeachingMeaningfulPlanningSettingSettingsManipulationInstructionParticipationCognitive Author:Ivan Illich
“We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.” RealTechnologyLearningTeacherTeachingExampleLimitsDirectExperienceInstructionBlinkSelf EducationGood TeacherTeaching And LearningGood TeachingSelf TaughtAdequacyExperience And Learning Book:Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking Source: Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
“It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail. It is a grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.” ThinkingNeedsMeanLittlesFactsMistakeEducationTeachLearningFailingSeeingTeachingModernDutyHolyMiracleMethodPlantCuriosityEducationalGravesRuinsEnjoymentInstructionDelicateInquiryCoercionSelf EducationSchooledStimulationGreat EducationTeaching And LearningEducation And TeachersUnschoolingGreat EducationalTeaching And EducationTeaching EducationTeaching LearningGreat TeachingPhilosophy Of EducationFree EducationEducation And FreedomModern EducationMethods Of Teaching Book:The Essential Einstein: His Greatest Works Source: The Essential Einstein: His Greatest Works
“In order to help another effectively, I must understand what he understands. If I do not know that, my greater understanding will be of no help to him... instruction begins when you put yourself in his place so that you may understand what he understands and in the way he understands it.” IfsKnowsWayMayHelpingOrderUnderstandingLearningGreaterInstruction Author:Soren Kierkegaard
“Instruction, and advice, and commands will profit little, unless they are backed up by the pattern of your own life. Your children will never believe you are in earnest, and really wish them to obey you, so long as your actions contradict your counsel... Think not your children will practise what they do not see you do. You are their model picture, and they will copy what you are... will seldom learn habits which they see you despise, or walk in paths in which you do not walk yourself.” ThinkingBelieveChildrenLittlesLongActionWishWalksLearningPathAdviceHabitModelsOur ChildrenPatternsProfitCommandYour ChildrenCopiesInstructionDespiseEarnestPractise Author:J. C. Ryle
“It's exciting to see how fast your kids learn and grow. I'm not too worried about them, particularly the ones who like to break rules and don't follow instructions; those are the ones that will do just fine because they know what's important to them.” KnowsImportantKidsGrowsBreakLearningFineExcitingWorriedInstructionWhat's Important Author:Michael Dell
“Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities-that's training or instruction-but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed.” FactsScienceAbilityLearningInformationSkillsTrainingSeedsDataVisibleInstruction Author:Thomas W. Moore
“Let the main object... to seek and to find a method of instruction, by which teachers may teach less, but learners learn more.” MayTeachLearningTeacherTeachingObjectsMethodInstructionLearners Author:John Amos Comenius
“If you just do something, then you're a five-year wonder and, goodbye, you're gone. But if people feel it's worthwhile, not only do they copy but they want to learn how to do it To me, that's what it's all about. If someone were to ask me, 'What's the number one thing, in essence, that you left behind?' It was the teaching of others so that they could take my work and take it further.” PeopleIfsWantFeelsYearsAsksLeftWorkNumbersBehindsWonderGoneLearningFiveTeacherOne ThingTeachingEssenceEntrepreneurAsk MeFive YearsGoodbyeCopiesInstructionWorthwhileLeft BehindProfessionalismCopying Author:Vidal Sassoon
“The first recorded instruction given to Adam after the Fall dealt with the eternal principle of work. The Lord said: "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread." (Gen. 3:19.) Our Heavenly Father loves us so completely that he has given us a commandment to work. This is one of the keys to eternal life. He knows that we will learn more, grow more, achieve more, serve more, and benefit more from a life of industry than from a life of ease.” KnowsLifeFirstsSaidFacesFallFatherGivenGrowsLordPrinciplesLearningAchieveKeysIndustryBenefitsEternalBreadEaseHeavenlySweatAdamInstructionCommandmentsEternal LifeHeavenly Father Author:Howard W. Hunter
“In the deep, unwritten wisdom of life there are many things to be learned that cannot be taught. We never know them by hearing them spoken, but we grow into them by experience and recognize them through understanding. Understanding is a great experience in itself, but it does not come through instruction.” KnowsLifeDoeGrowsUnderstandingLearningTaughtHearingInstructionLife WisdomUnwrittenGreat Experiences Author:Anthony Hope