Hermann Ebbinghaus: Quotes about learning

Hermann Ebbinghaus was German psychologist. Explore interesting quotes on learning.
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“A poem is learned by heart and then not again repeated. We will suppose that after a half year it has been forgotten: no effort of recollection is able to call it back again into consciousness.”

Hermann Ebbinghaus

Source: Memory: A contribution to experimental psychology, 1885, p. 8

“The relation of repetitions for learning and for repeating English stanzas needs no amplification. These were learned by heart on the first day with less than half of the repetitions necessary for the shortest of the syllable series.”

Hermann Ebbinghaus

Source: Memory: A contribution to experimental psychology, 1885, p. 85

“The schoolboy doesn't force himself to learn his vocabularies and rules altogether at night, but knows that he must impress them again in the morning.”

Hermann Ebbinghaus

Source: Memory: A contribution to experimental psychology, 1885, p. 89

“No matter how thoroughly a person may have learned the Greek alphabet, he will never be in a condition to repeat it backwards without further training. But if he chances to set out purposely to learn it backwards, he will probably accomplish this in noticeably shorter time than was the case in the previous learning in the customary order.”

Hermann Ebbinghaus

Source: Memory: A contribution to experimental psychology, 1885, p. 113