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Tell me and I forget, teach me and I remember, involve me and I learn.

Benjamin Franklin

From Clarissa Explains It All: (Clarissa, to the Audience)...

The more I think about it, the more I think I should think about it some more.

Adam Robinson, founder of The Princeton Review:

No one bothered to teach you the most important academic skill: how to learn. Your teachers (and perhaps you) assumed that the ability to learn in a school setting was a natural gift -- either you were born with the knack or you weren't. This belief is entirely wrong. Learning is a natural ability, but learning in school is another matter. If school were structured in a way that better conformed to how you learn naturally, you wouldn't need me or anyone else telling you how to learn.