The meaning of knowing has shifted from being able to remember and repeat
information to being able to find and use it. The goal of education is better
conceived as helping students develop the intellectual tools and learning
strategies needed to acquire the knowledge necessary to think productively.
(Nobel Laureate Herbert Simon,1996)If our students do not understand the
learning process, the chief engine of education—they are not going to learn very
much in our courses no matter what we do. (L. Gardiner 1994, Redesigning
Higher Education: Producing Dramatic Gains in Student Learning)
One of the most valuable actions we could take to improve learning—and
thus the productivity of both our students and our institutions—would be to
teach our students how to learn. (L. Gardiner 1994, Redesigning Higher
Education: Producing Dramatic Gains in Student Learning)
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