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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
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