Education Quote by Scientific American

“Trying to solve a problem before being taught the solution leads to better learning, even when errors are made in the attempt.”

— Peter C. Brown

“When mistakes teach a lesson, make sure you are in class, just in case they hold a quiz”

— Erwin D. Maramat

From a young age, pupils are put under immense amounts of pressure in high-stakes exams. Often, they're made to feel like their whole future…

— Layla Moran

“We test students right after they read something mostly to ensure that they have in fact read it. From this, many have drawn the…

— Douglas Wilson

“Many students fail examinations not because they don't know anything but because they lack confidence to prove that they know anything or everything.”

— Asuni LadyZeal

“It may be a bitter pill to swallow, but the majority of mistakes made by pupils are the result of the teaching.”

— Paul Harris

“In virtually all areas of learning, you build better mastery when you use testing as a tool to identify and bring up your areas…

— Peter C. Brown

“Is not the great defect of our education today—a defect traceable through all the disquieting symptoms of trouble that I have mentioned—that although we…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“Teach and reinforce the merits of mistake-based learning.”

— Ray Dalio

“I’ve often thought that parents and schools overemphasize the value of having the right answers all the time. It seems to me that the…

— Ray Dalio

“Learning to fail well means learning to understand your mistakes, because unless you know what went wrong, you may do the wrong things to…

— Megan McArdle

“School exams are memory tests, in real-world no one is going to stop you from referring a book to solve a problem.”

— Amit Kalantri