The finding that rereading textbooks is often labor in vain ought to send a chill up the spines of educators and learners, because it’s the number one study strategy of most people–including more than 80 percent of college students in some surveys–and is central in what we tell ourselves to do during the hours we dedicate to learning. Rereading has three strikes against it. It is time consuming. It doesn’t result in durable memory. And it often involves a kind of unwitting self-deception, as growing familiarity with the text comes to feel like mastery of the content. Peter C. Brown
Love, too, has to be learned.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.
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Michel De Montaigne
But it's important to acknowledge that while we may make mistakes, in the long run, we may also learn from them.
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Sarah Dessen
One way or another, I think we are all destined to learn the same lessons in life. Universal truths are universal truths. They cannot be changed.
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Richelle E. Goodrich
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
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Voltaire
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The finding that rereading textbooks is often labor in vain ought to send a chill up the spines of educators and learners, because it’s the number one study strategy of most people–including more than 80 percent of college students in some surveys–and is central in...
