Eric Mazur famous quotes
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I thought I was a good teacher until I discovered my students were just memorizing information rather than learning to understand the material,
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The real hallmark of learning is transferring what you’ve learned into new contexts.
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Lecture is the transfer of the notes of the lecturer to the notes of the student without passing through either.
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You can forget facts but you cannot forget understanding.
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Just as you can't become a marathon runner by watching marathons on TV, likewise for science, you have to go through the thought processes of doing science and not just watch your instructor do it.
-- Eric Mazur
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If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.
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It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?
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If you would be a better teacher, teach by the spirit. That is the thing that gives strength and power, meaning and life, to our otherwise weak efforts... remember, you cannot give away that which you do not possess. Study the life of the master. You do not have to have a college degree to be an efficient teacher. But you do have to become acquainted with the life and teachings of the master to be an effective teacher in the church.
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The teacher that I was for decades, and that I still am in a certain way, wondered what was meant by the word education. I was truly dumbfounded at the very thought of dealing with such an essential and extensive subject.
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It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.
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Personal growth is not a matter of learning new information but of unlearning old limits.
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My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information.
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As I often tell my students, the person you’ll have the hardest time opening to and truly loving without reserve is yourself. Once you can do that, you can love the whole universe unconditionally.
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I'm not saying that they were Einsteins; they were marginal students. But every ballplayer whoever touched me has moved up his station in life. And the players moved up my station.
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Learning is something students do, NOT something done to students.
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