Michele Pasin / Quotes

Admitting ignorance is the first step to learning

If you don’t let a teacher know at what level you are—by asking a question, or revealing your ignorance—you will not learn or grow. You cannot pretend for…

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Stephen R. Covey) #ignorance #learning #education

Science and religion

Both Feynman and Tyson seem to agree that the scientific and Creationist methods for discovering “truth,” whatever that may be, are basically incompatible…

Richard Feynman On Religion, Science, The Search For Truth & Our Willingness To Live With Doubt - Open Culture #truth #answers #meaning #ignorance #mystery

Adaptive learning

When most people use this phrase, what they’re really discussing is either a) single-point adaptivity, which evaluates a student’s performance at one point in…

Adaptive Learning White Paper | Knewton #students #learning #instruction #questions

Agnosticism

“But what is truth?” asks a certain kind of skeptic. That, suggests the late Nobel prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman above, depends upon your method. If…

Richard Feynman On Religion, Science, The Search For Truth & Our Willingness To Live With Doubt - Open Culture #science #answers #questions #doubt

An empty question about sameness

As long as you know what aspect of sameness matters to the questioner, you can provide an answer. If you’re a forensic investigator searching for traces of…

The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) #identity #questions #context

Ask questions rather than tell

Piaget’s theory tells us that it will be more effective to ask questions that help children think through the problem on their own than to tell them flat out…

Theories of Childhood, Second Edition (Carol Garhart Mooney) #teaching #questions #constructivism #learning