Quotes About Active Learning

#1. Student engagement is the product of motivation and active learning. It is a product rather than a sum because it will not occur if either element is missing.

Elizabeth F. Barkley

#2. Active learning is always involved with interaction between teachers and students and Socratic methods and that's gonna continue.

Joseph Stiglitz

#3. Flipping our classrooms into active learning spaces really is important and having these convenient spaces where people feel comfortable.

Megan Smith

#4. Thirty minutes of active learning is equivalent to several hours of passive learning.

Tamara L. Chilver

#5. By staying active & learning to control negative emotions and thoughts, you can live out the rest of your life on a good note.

Jude Bijou

#6. I went to an inner-city school in Buffalo. We had no money. But our teachers believed in hands-on active learning - there was a mandatory science fair, which was critical.

Megan Smith

#7. Research shows that active learning is among the most impactful and memorable forms of learning.

Kevin Turner

#8. The playoffs are the wedge between the season and the World Series. If you lose, it means you won't be going to the greatest sports event in this country ... You're forgotten by Thanksgiving.

Tim McCarver

#9. Literacy unlocks the door to learning throughout life, is essential to development and health, and opens the way for democratic participation and active citizenship.

Kofi Annan

#10. I think it's so important to keep learning and keep your brain active.

Beverley Mitchell

#11. Research indicates that, as long as we keep using our brains in an active way, we continue to build neural pathways as we get older. This gives us not only the ongoing potential for creative thought, but also an additional incentive for continuing to stretch ourselves.

Ken Robinson

#12. Shaw once remarked: "If you teach a man anything, he will never learn." Shaw was right. Learning is an active process. We learn by doing.

Dale Carnegie

#13. I stopped this one about two months before federation and I want the next one to be more political. It will deal with the formation of white Australian policy and things like that.

Colleen McCullough

#14. Most organizations should be pro-active, but philanthropists concerned with poverty should deliberately be reactive, learning from the efforts of ordinary folks who tired of looking the other way as their communities fell apart.

Marvin Olasky

#15. The single problem plaguing all students in all schools everywhere is the crisis of disconnection. Meaningful Student Involvement happens when the roles of students are actively re-aligned from being the passive recipients of schools to becoming active partners throughout the educational process.

Adam Fletcher

#16. Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.

Nadine Gordimer

#17. Abuse directed at women is always sexual or violent.

Louise Mensch

#18. Winter. It made things visible.

Ali Smith

#19. I had grown up at a time when people were being lynched, being attacked with water hoses. Becoming active and learning a different way of viewing my life was a healthy reaction to what I was seeing every day.

Assata Shakur

#20. I will change you like a remix, then I'll raise you like a Phoenix

Fall Out Boy

#21. As my grandmother used to say, if you've got nothing good to say about someone, let's hear it.

Lawrence Block

#22. Living is a creative and active process of diligent learning that entails industrious human action, attentive awareness, and thoughtful reflection. Learning is one facet of human beings innate capacity that can provide a sense of worthiness to human life.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#23. Learning is more effective when it is an active rather than a passive process.

Kurt Lewin

#24. Learning is not so much an additive process, with new learning simply piling up on top of existing knowledge, as it is an active, dynamic process in which the connections are constantly changing and the structure reformatted.

K. Patricia Cross

#25. Stay active. Read the Word. Worship with other believers. Continue to give. Keep learning and growing. Your faith will be unleashed!

Joyce Meyer

#26. All genuine learning is active, not passive. It involves the use of the mind, not just the memory. It is a process of discovery, in which the student is the main agent, not the teacher.

Mortimer Adler

#27. The act of learning itself is no longer seen as simply a matter of information transfer, but rather as a process of dynamic participation, in which students cultivate new ways of thinking and doing, through active discovery and discussion, experimentation and reflection.

Susan C. Aldridge

#28. locking the little scamp in the basement.

Jan Swafford

#29. Early morning exercise will keep you active for the entire day.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#30. When we speak of the Path we mean much more than a course of study. The Path is a way of life and on it the whole being must co-operate if the heights are to be won.

Dion Fortune

#31. As much as we hate to admit it, we are sinners by birth. We are also sinners by choice. We are also sinners by practice.

Billy Graham

#32. I'd like to be a bigger and more knowledgeable person ten years from now than I am today. I think that for all of us as we grow older, we must discipline ourselves to continue expanding, broadening, learning, keeping our minds active and open.

Clint Eastwood

#33. Why couldn't I be down there having fun like a normal teenage girl? Why did I always have to feel threatened? Under fire?

Kresley Cole

#34. I'd rather do anything than make commercial art. I didn't go to school for art. Making art has certain advantages for me but they would never be in commercial direction.

Raymond Pettibon

#35. Both children and adults acquire knowledge from active participation in holistic, complex, meaningful environments organized around long-term goals. Today's school programs could hardly have been better designed to prevent a child's natural learning system from operating.

Sylvia Farnham-Diggory

#36. There is no way to help a learner to be disciplined, active, and thoroughly engaged unless he perceives a problem to be a problem or whatever is to-be-learned as worth learning, and unless he plays an active role in determining the process of solution.

Neil Postman

#37. A way foolishness has of revenging itself is to excommunicate the world.

George Santayana

#38. That we have collectively failed to halt and repudiate the war in Iraq makes us even worse than the Germans.

Scott Ritter