You can forget facts but you cannot forget understanding.

- Eric Mazur

I thought I was a good teacher until I discovered my students were just memorizing information rather than learning to understand the material.

- Eric Mazur

Lecture is the transfer of the notes of the lecturer to the notes of the student without passing through either.

- Eric Mazur

Just as you can't become a marathon runner by watching marathons on TV, likewise for science, you have to go through the thought processes of doing s…

- Eric Mazur

The real hallmark of learning is transferring what you’ve learned into new contexts.

- Eric Mazur