John Wooden: Demonstration, Imitation, Correction and Repitition

All of this was done in the subtlest of ways.  While our practices were the most demanding endeavors that I’ve ever been a part of – so physically, emotionally, mentally, and psychologically taxing – there was always the sense of joy, of celebration, and of people having fun playing a simple game.  Always positive, always constructive, John Wooden drove us in ways and directions that we are not aware of, always with the goal of making us better.  It is never about him, never about the struggle for material accumulation, but always about individual skill and personal development within the framework of the team, the game, and UCLA.  

Our practices, our lives are constantly structured around the four laws of learning: demonstration, imitation, correction, and repetition.

And repeat we do – everything, every day, until we have become John Wooden ourselves.