You teach me, I forget. You show me, I remember. You involve me, I understand.

If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don't bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.

Honey,” Jammer said, “you’ll learn. Some things you teach yourself to remember to forget.

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

Give up thinking as though not giving it up. Observe techniques as though not observing.

You must try to forget all you have learned,' said the old man. 'You must begin to dream. From this time on you must shut your ears to the roaring of the voices.

Learning how to think' really means learning how to exercise some control over how & what you think. It means being conscious & aware enough to choose what you pay attention to & to choose how you construct meaning from experience.

In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.

"Learning how to think" really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think.
It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience.
Because if you cannot or will not exercise this kind of choice in adult life, you will be totally hosed.

The art of competing, I’d learned from track, was the art of forgetting, and I now reminded myself of that fact. You must forget your limits. You must forget your doubts, your pain, your past.

One goes to college to learn, it seems, not to think.

Forgetting, he is learning, is how the world heals itself.

If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don’t bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking. — BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace. — ROBERT J. SAWYER, Calculating God