Tony Buzan

Mind mapping is a technique based on memory and creativity and comprehension and understanding, so when the student or a child uses the mind map, they are using their brain in the way their brain was designed to be used, and so the mind helps them in all learning and cognitive skills. It simply helps them in what the brain does naturally.

English Author

Dwight D. Eisenhower

If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.

American President

Richard Quest

I hope I'm wrong, but I think the victory of the screen is going to win out. It raises the fundamental question: is the quality of reading and comprehension as good when you read it on a screen as when you read it on a physical paper?

English Journalist

Mark Frauenfelder

The human-made world is mostly beyond our comprehension. Our daily survival depends on seemingly magical gizmos that provide our food, water, clothing, comfort, transportation, education, well-being, and amusement.

American Journalist

L. Lionel Kendrick

Life is not always easy to live, but the opportunity to do so is a blessing beyond comprehension. In the process of living, we will face struggles, many of which will cause us to suffer and to experience pain.

American Clergyman

Rachel Cusk

To become a mother is to learn a whole language - to relearn it, perhaps, as it was the tongue to which we were born - and hence gain entrance to a forgotten world of comprehension.

Canadian Novelist

Will Smith

Traditional education is based on facts and figures and passing tests - not on a comprehension of the material and its application to your life.

American Actor

Laura van den Berg

It's not easy to craft a novel that gradually erodes the reader's comprehension of the world, of reality and identity and the passage of time.

American Writer

Matt Duffer

If you were to encounter something from another world or dimension, it would be beyond comprehension.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

Swiss Author

Understanding might require reading between the lines or grasping implied meanings.

Inference Needed

Comprehension includes listening carefully to grasp spoken language intricacies.

Listening Skills

Understanding may involve awareness of cultural references and idiomatic expressions.

Cultural Nuances

Sometimes 'comprehension' means being aware that a concept is too complex to fully grasp.

Not Always Literal

What is within comprehension for one person might be confusing to another.

Subjective Limits

Your range of comprehension can expand with study and exposure to new ideas.

Personal Growth

During a comprehension test, actively thinking about the material can improve performance.

Active Engagement

Use skimming for the main idea and scanning for specific information during comprehension tests.

Skimming and Scanning

After reading, summarize the content in your own words to check comprehension.

Check Understanding

 He reasoned that since the regions for speech production and comprehension were not adjacent, then injuring the area connecting them might result in a special type of language loss, now known as receptive aphasia. Wernicke's connectionist model helped explain disorders that didn't result from the dysfunction of just one area.

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 We don't start by giving them books. We start by breaking down words into letters and sounds and we encourage them to practice their fluency by reading every single day, with a partner or with their friends. And we give them lots of comprehension questions to make sure that they're understanding what they're reading.

How to teach kids to...

 Could it be that there are fundamental limits to what we can know about something we can't experience? And would this mean there are certain aspects of the universe that lie permanently beyond our comprehension? Or will science and philosophy allow us to overcome our mind's limitations?

Mary's Room: A...

 the hard part of teaching is not knowing your script it's understanding whether or not anything that you're saying is getting through and we have evolved in a way over millions of years that these marvelous cues for communicating comprehension or confusion that are lost

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 include teachers saying they have never loved teaching so much, and reading comprehension measured by third parties -- not by us -- skyrockets. Probably the most important thing we see is children teaching parents.

Nicholas Negroponte...

 -What would you do if you got a peanut? -Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god. Even though Einstein's ability to mimic is impressive, Irene still thinks that Griffin is top of the class when it comes to comprehension.

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 And that is not something that is beyond comprehension at this point. It'll also help us a lot, if we meet an advanced civilization along the way, if we're trying to be an advanced civilization. Number eight --

Stephen Petranek: 10...

 Most of the time, art and science stare at each other across a gulf of mutual incomprehension. There is great confusion when the two look at each other. Art, of course, looks at the world through the psyche,

James Balog: Time-lapse...

 most of the time art and science stare at each other across a gulf of mutual in comprehension there is great confusion when the two look at each other art of course looks at the world through the psyche the

Time-lapse proof of...

 talking about time spans that are beyond comprehension for instance in this rock here there are zircon crystals that are one third of the age of the universe

Comprehension

The ability to understand something.

Often appears as...

The range of something that can be understood.

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A test to evaluate one's understanding of a particular text.

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Inference Needed

Listening Skills

Cultural Nuances

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