Education Quote by Nicholas Negroponte Download Open image “Rote learning is a killer for most of us and for some people, it really excludes them.” — Nicholas Negroponte ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Education Killers Learning People
I think there's too much emphasis placed on learning things by rote that you don't really care about. So what happens to students in… — Jack Canfield Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think people confuse rote learning with traditional conceptual instruction. — Sal Khan Copy Share Image
I struggle to learn by rote. I've had meltdowns on set. Which is embarrassing and shameful. — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
“Practice makes perfect,” is misleading. When practicing, many people do the behavior by rote—without thinking about what they’re doing. But this kind of practice… — Dorothy Grover Bolton Copy Share Image
No amount of learning goes to waste. It adds to building your skill set and intellect. — Shruti Haasan Copy Share Image
In most schools, we measure children on what they know. By and large, they have to memorize the content of whatever test is coming… — Sugata Mitra Copy Share Image
The key to learning is feedback. It is nearly impossible to learn anything without it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What's the difference between obsolete and cutting edge? Obsolete works. — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
The computer provides the only way to give students a real foundation in 21st-century skills. — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
The process of debugging, going an correcting the program and then looking at the behavior, and then correcting it again, and finally iteratively getting… — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
I think life's turning into an omelet and people will just have to live with that. — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
Linux is its own worst enemy: it's splintered, it has different distributions, it's too complex to run for most people. — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
But just as elevators have changed the shape of buildings and cars have changed the shape of cities, bits will change the shape of… — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water. — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
Key is the question of where do new ideas come from. Historically, four places: government labs, big corporations, startup companies, and research universities. — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
Everybody agrees that whatever the solutions are to the big problems, they ... can never be without some element of education. — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
A Wired reader told me once, Get a life, which I read from the back of a yacht in the Aegean, while eating fresh… — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
Give One, Get One generated about 100,000 zero-dollar laptops. Somebody else paid for them, but from the recipient's point of view, that's zero. — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other students that… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
There's no authoritarian structure at Reed College, but the education is conservative. So what you have is a lot of students who are very… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“What's the best thing about being in college? Good teachers. They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“If one has not a head of steel it will burst; if he has not within it a brain of liquid quicksilver, he will… — Ioannes Amos Commenius Copy Share Image
“let us not teach / what we have learned badly / and not profited by” — H.D. (Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
According to Plato, we don't learn anything. Our soul has lived so many lives that we know everything. Teachers and education can only remind… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“I only began to enjoy studying after I got through the educational system and became a so-called member of society. If something interested me,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
How wonderful it would be, I thought, if only we could practice the teachings of the Buddha as he really taught them from his… — Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche Copy Share Image