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Our Underachieving Colleges: A Candid Look at How Much Students Learn and Why They Should Be Learning More.
Clayton M. Christensen • The Innovative University: Changing the DNA of Higher Education from the Inside Out
S. Eliot had expressed the same ideas—much more poetically, of course—in The Rock (1934): Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? The cycles of Heaven in twenty centuries Bring us farther from God and nearer to the Dust. To paraphrase Neil Postman’s
... See moreJohn C. Bogle • Enough: True Measures of Money, Business, and Life
Mazur says that the person who knows best what a student is struggling with in assimilating new concepts is not the professor, it’s another student.
Henry L. Roediger III • Make It Stick
One item must lead you to the next,
Jerry Lucas • The Memory Book: The Classic Guide to Improving Your Memory at Work, at School, and at Play
The informal leader of this whole crew, of course, was Sigmund Freud.
Jonathan Mooney • Normal Sucks
The second level of reading we will call Inspectional Reading. It is characterized by its special emphasis on time. When reading at this level, the student is allowed a set time to complete an assigned amount of reading.
Charles Van Doren • How to Read a Book
Finally, TURN THE PAGES, DIPPING IN HERE AND THERE, READING A PARAGRAPH OR TWO, SOMETIMES SEVERAL PAGES IN SEQUENCE, NEVER MORE THAN THAT.
Charles Van Doren • How to Read a Book
What You Can Learn from the Title of a Book
Charles Van Doren • How to Read a Book
The Second Level of Reading: Inspectional Reading