Analogies of Learning
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Each of the following quotes presents an analogy or description of the learning process. Unpack the quote and explain its view of learning.
- Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. William Butler Yeats
- One builds science with facts like a house can be built of stones, but an accumulation of facts is not a science like that a pile of stones is not a house. Henri Poincaré
- Students’ initial ideas are like strands of yarn, some unconnected, some loosely interwoven. The act of instruction can be viewed as helping students unravel individual strands of belief, label them, and weave them into a fabric of more complete understanding. James Minstrell
- To attain knowledge, add things every day, to attain wisdom, remove things every day. Lao-Zu
- The theory of knowledge that I wish to propose is a largely Darwinian theory of growth of knowledge… we try to solve our problems, and to obtain, by a process of elimination something approaching adequacy in our tentative solutions. Sir Karl Popper
- In his teaching, [the superior man] leads and does not drag; he strengthens and does not discourage; he opens the way, but does not conduct to the end without the learner's own efforts. Confucius
- What the learner can do in cooperation today he can do alone tomorrow. Lev Vygotsky
- Anyone who has begun to think places some portion of the world in jeopardy. John Dewey
