Learning How to Learn – 10 Suggestions

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 Tell me and I forget, 

teach me and I remember, 

involve me and I learn.

 – Benjamin Franklin

 

Let your home

be a meeting place

for sages. 

– Pirkei Avot 1:4

 

 Ask a question

and you’re a fool for three minutes – 

don’t ask a question

and you’re a fool all your life. 

– Chinese proverb

 

A shy person

cannot learn. 

– Pirkei Avot, 2:6

 

 Children are like wet cement: 

whatever falls on them

makes an impression. 

– Dr. Chaim Ginott,

Israeli early-education pioneer

 

It’s not that I’m so smart, 

it’s just that I stay with problems

longer. 

– Albert Einstein

 

 Rabbi Hillel says …

do not say

‘When I am free I will study’, 

for perhaps you will not become free. 

– Pirkei Avot 2:6

 

 Perfect is the enemy of good. 

– Voltaire

 

It’s the mark of an educated mind

 to be able to entertain a thought 

without accepting it. 

– Aristotle

 

Ben Zoma says: 

Who is wise? 

He who learns from every person. 

– Pirkei Avot 4:1

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