A huge amount of research has gone into clarifying how we learn best. How can we make sure that information doesn’t just go in one ear and out the other? How do we get our knowledge to stick, rather than slip away over time? The answers that research points to are almost always different from…
“Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by failing to attempt.” – William Shakespeare The fear of failure and the myth of errorless learning Why are we so afraid to make mistakes? Part of the answer can be traced to our remote past when we were more concerned…
“I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.” – Pablo Picasso The Not So Model Student Jack is a model student. He attends all his classes and takes notes in them. He reads all the textbook chapters he’s assigned and highlights the key passages. But when…
“Whether you think you can or you can’t, you’re probably right.” – Henry Ford What is it you’ve always struggled to learn? Whether it’s an apparent incompetence with languages, ineptitude with numbers or inability to recall the details of an insightful book, we’ve all experienced frustrations with learning. If only more people knew that the…
