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“Explicit knowledge, conventionally delivered like pizza (neat boxes with toppings of concepts, theories, best practices and war stories), is consumed by the brain but not metabolized into action. The learning we call intuition, know-how and common sense gets into the blood stream through osmosis. It is shaped by social context.”

Source: The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World's Toughest Problems

“It's not so much what you have to learn if you accept weird theories, it's what you have to UNlearn.”

Ifs Accepting Learning Theory Skepticism Unlearn

Author:Isaac Asimov

“Those, who are strongly wedded to what I shall call 'the classical theory', will fluctuate, I expect, between a belief that I am quite wrong and a belief that I am saying nothing new. It is for others to determine if either of these or the third alternative is right.”

Ifs Belief History Power Learning Theory Economics Thirds Determine Alternatives Nothing New Saying Nothing

Book:General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money

Source: General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money

“If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.”

Ifs Knows Want Change Knowledge Learning Military Theory Revolution Taste Eating Direct Method Genuine Pears Knowledge And Experience Knowledge Experience Chinese Revolution

Book:Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works

Source: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works

“His [Thomas Edison] method was inefficient in the extreme, for an immense ground had to be covered to get anything at all unless blind chance intervened and, at first, I was almost a sorry witness of his doings, knowing that just a little theory and calculation would have saved him 90 per cent of the labor. But he had a veritable contempt for book learning and mathematical knowledge, trusting himself entirely to his inventor's instinct and practical American sense. In view of this, the truly prodigious amount of his actual accomplishments is little short of a miracle.”

“Writers the most learned, the most accurate in details, and the soundest in tendency, frequently fall into a habit which can neither be cured nor pardoned,-the habit of making history into the proof of their theories.”

Writing Fall Learning Theory Habit Historical Details Proof Tendencies Accurate Making History

Book:The History of Freedom (and other Essays)

Source: The History of Freedom (and other Essays)

“The overwhelming number of teachers ...are unable to name or describe a theory of learning that underlies what they do.”

Names Numbers Learning Teacher Teaching Theory Overwhelming

Author:Alfie Kohn

“The important question is whether [a theory] is true, not whether envisioning an alternative is too intellectually painful to bear.”

Important Knowledge Learning Theory Bears Management Painful Alternatives Important Questions Envisioning

Author:J. D. Trout