Best quotes by Julian Treasure on Listening

Checkout quotes by Julian Treasure on Listening

• ‟ Let's define listening as making meaning from sound. It's a mental process, and it's a process of extraction. We use some pretty cool techniques to do this. One of them is pattern recognition.

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• ‟ The trouble with listening is that so much of what we hear is noise, surrounding us all the time.

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• ‟ It would be some sort of shock horror story if a child left school unable to read or write. But we do not teach explicitly, or test in the main, either speaking or - much more importantly - listening.

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• ‟ Listening is an activity. It's not passive. We are creating the world by listening all the time.

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• ‟ You can detect a hostile listening or a bored listening or a tired listening or an excited and engaged listening.

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• ‟ We spend all our time teaching reading and writing. We spend absolutely no time at all, in most schools, teaching either speaking or, more importantly still, listening.

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