Quotes by John Medina

John Medina

A factory worker at an assembly line, who can learn their job in 5 minutes, can get bored fairly easily, and disengage completely.

Bored

Jobs

Lines

A third or more of the brain is devoted to visual processing, not true of any other sense. We have color vision and it is truly binocular. This sophistication is not true of other senses, such as smell, where many genes are actually mutated and no longer work.

Brain

Color

Smell

Americans have been good at improvising for a long time, but in the last few decades, we have gotten very sloppy about the rote memorization of facts. That’s a discipline issue. You need the rote skill in order to have something to improvise off of, otherwise you are simply playing air guitar.

Air Guitar

Order

Skills

Any education system that only memorizes things creates robots and will never produce Nobel laureates. Any education system that only emphasizes improvisation will get a bunch of people who may think they are creative, but they are functionally illiterate.

Creative

People

Thinking

Babies learn through a series of increasingly self-corrected ideas. They use very sophisticated hypothesis testing strategies to find out about their world.

Baby

Ideas

Self

Based on research into the Picture Superiority Effect, when we read text alone, we are likely to remember only 10 percent of the information 3 days later. If that information is presented to us as text combined with a relevant image, we are likely to remember 65 percent of the information 3 days later.

Information

Remember

Research

Brain scientists and education scientists don’t get together very often, and we end up living in our own little silos.

Brain

Littles

Together

Change often involves loss, so change can be a risky experience.

Loss

Don’t start with the details. Start with the key ideas, and in a hierarchical fashion, form the details around these larger notions.

Fashion

Ideas

Keys

Empathy works so well because it does not require a solution. It requires only understanding.

Doe

Empathy

Understanding

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Air

Air Guitar

America

Attention

Baby

Battle

Behavior

Bored

Brain

Business

Capable

Cells

Characteristics

Children

Color

Creative

Cubicles

Curiosity

Design

Details

Discovery

Distance

Doe

Doing You

East

Effort

Elephants

Emotional

Empathy

Environment

Errors

Exercise

Fashion

Firsts

Gist

Glasses

Heaven

Home

Humans

Ideas

Information

Input

Jobs

Joy

Keys

Kids

Lifelong

Lines

Littles

Long

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Quotes by John Medina

John Medina

A factory worker at an assembly line, who can learn their job in 5 minutes, can get bored fairly easily, and disengage completely.

A third or more of the brain is devoted to visual processing, not true of any other sense. We have color vision and it is truly binocular. This sophistication is not true of other senses, such as smell, where many genes are actually mutated and no longer work.

Americans have been good at improvising for a long time, but in the last few decades, we have gotten very sloppy about the rote memorization of facts. That’s a discipline issue. You need the rote skill in order to have something to improvise off of, otherwise you are simply playing air guitar.

Any education system that only memorizes things creates robots and will never produce Nobel laureates. Any education system that only emphasizes improvisation will get a bunch of people who may think they are creative, but they are functionally illiterate.

Babies learn through a series of increasingly self-corrected ideas. They use very sophisticated hypothesis testing strategies to find out about their world.

Brain scientists and education scientists don’t get together very often, and we end up living in our own little silos.

Change often involves loss, so change can be a risky experience.

Don’t start with the details. Start with the key ideas, and in a hierarchical fashion, form the details around these larger notions.

Empathy works so well because it does not require a solution. It requires only understanding.

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