Prehistoric sites such as Stonehenge may represent memory spaces, constructed to contain the knowledge of the tribe.

Capacity limits are a critical feature of a system designed to generate predictions about the future.

Knowledge is not just handed on around the campfire or out on the daily gather and hunt, apparently with no need to actually work at learning.

Get the basics in place without error, and then you can add all the glorious creativity and interpretation.

The Navajo had classified over 700 insects and stored the entire classification in memory.

Having a big picture and hooks for every piece of information just makes you want to know more.

Only with facts at my fingertips could I play with information and see patterns I had never glimpsed before.

The perceptions of an action, on a basic level, have already become my action.

Those who have understanding seek to imitate examples.

There appears a gap between who students claim to hold as models and who the students actually appear to imitate.

Our behavior is, often subtly, brought in line with the behavior of another person.

We usually imitate—automatically—and not doing it is the exception.

Students are not hardwired to helplessly mimic your incompetent authority.

The social forces of any real importance at any period are composed of the imitations of ancient inventions.

The objective, externally measured evidence of learner-centered pedagogy is rather thin.

Imitation plays a role in societies analogous to that of heredity in organic life.

Seventeen of the educators used the word joy to describe their own experiences of this unorthodox teaching method.

The tendency throughout the Middle Ages is to see words in the first instance as single letters variously combined in syllables.

From what it knows the mind fashions things unknown.

What we now call "using our imagination," medieval people called "recollection," and they were neither wrong nor foolish to do so.