The January 24, 2017 show featured
Exploring the Methods of Learning
Why You Should Care
And
The Right and Wrong Way
There are so many quotes throughout contemporary and past history on the subject that I could fill several pages with the list.
The point of the show is to highlight the importance of learning, most importantly the value of a good mentor, instructor, guide, teacher, etc. Rote education may teach you how to put a square block in a square hole and cylinder into a round hole, but that’s it.
One of the critical parts of learning is that you begin with the theory; the why, how, when. That knowledge acts as the foundation to the actual doing. You will inevitably encounter a variable that the rote method of learning did not cover. Unless you have a foundation in understanding of the way you solve that problem, you will fail.
Failure is always part of learning. But, unlike some popular assertions about learning, you don’t want to learn to fly a helicopter or shoot a gun for the first time by “figuring it out”. That is just lazy and dangerous. That said, people are hardwired to learn more easily in different ways.
Some notable quotes:
We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.
Lloyd Alexander
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Confucius
For what purpose humanity is there should not even concern us: why you are here, that you should ask yourself: and if you have no ready answer, then set for yourself goals, high and noble goals, and perish in pursuit of them!
Friedrich Nietzsche
There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.
Friedrich Nietzsche
I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill
Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds.
Plato