Eric Mazur 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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Source : Tinker v. Des Moines Indep. Community School Dist. (1969)
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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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“Learning is something students do, NOT something done to students.”
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