Ausubel Meaningful Learning Quotes & Sayings

I haven't played a chess match for several decades. At one point I lost most of my chess games. Then I realized many of my competitors were memorizing the best moves and I was unwilling to do this. — John Harsanyi

Everyone must learn from the past. — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Speech is one symptom of affection; and silence one; the perfect communication is heard of none. — Emily Dickinson

If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices. — Emile M. Cioran

Lectures which really teach will never be popular; lectures which are popular will never really teach. — Michael Faraday

I wrote about World War II because I didn't understand it. I think that's the reason that historians are drawn to any subject - there's something about it that doesn't make sense. I wanted to work my way through what happened slowly, and look at everything in the order in which it took place. — Nicholson Baker

He opened the door and led me through a corridor into a dark green lounge curiously paneled with pale green glass behind which, at cunningly measured distances, lay exquisitely painted panoramas of strange seas and beautiful landfalls. Standing in the center of the room, and slowly turning, a man might imagine that Satan had taken him to the top of a high mountain, and was showing him all the kingdoms of the earth... until he put out his hand to touch the middle distance, and felt a window, and saw through it to the heart of the illusion. — Gerald Kersh

If you cut corners you just keep on going in circles. — Grant Stoelwinder