THOUGHTS ON LEARNING AND EDUCATION

"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education."
- Albert Einstein
 
bloom's two-sigma problem: the average student tutored one-to-one performed two standard deviations better than students educated in a classroom
   
"I concluded that what we call 'intelligence' is as much about virtues such as honesty, integrity, and
bravery, as it is about 'raw intellect'.
Intelligent people simply aren't willing to accept answers that they don't understand"
https://nabeelqu.substack.com/p/understanding   

"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool"  -- Richard Feynman


"Learning should be fast and fun. 
The most inefficient and most tedious learning method is to use a marker to underline text: it wastes time, provides false comfort and makes the text unreadable.
Nobody marking text is learning efficiently or is enjoying it.
In my experience as a student and teacher, one learning method never failed to transform unsuccessful pupils into successful ones: if you read a book for study, summarize every section you read, in your own words and images, aloud.
If you are unable to do so, read the section again. Repeat this until you can clearly summarize what you read
in your own words and images, aloud. "
Advice for learners in Motion Mountain -- The Adventure of Physics textbook

spaced repetition <-- Hermann Ebbinghaus, forgetting curve, anki