Strategy

Military stratagem in the Maneuver against the Romans by Cimbri and Teutons circa 100 B.C.

Strategy (from Greek στρατηγία stratēgia, "art of troop leader; office of general, command, generalship") is a general or high level plan to achieve one or more goals under conditions of uncertainty. The term originally referred only to military strategy involving sets of ideas implemented by military organizations to pursue desired goals with military tactics or immediate actions with resources at hand, but has broadened its meaning to denote comprehensive ways to try to pursue many general goals. It involves determining goals to aim for, determining actions to achieve them, and mobilizing resources to execute the actions. Strategies indicate how the ends (goals) can be achieved by the means (resources) available, and can be very rigid and fixed, or malleable, evolving and emerging as patterns of activity as groups and individuals adapt to their environment or compete.

Strategy is a system of expedients; it is more than a mere scholarly discipline. It is the translation of knowledge to practical life, the improvement of the original leading thought in accordance with continually changing situations.

Variant: Strategy is a system of expedients. It is more than science, it is the translation of science into practical life, the development of an original leading thought in accordance with the ever-changing circumstances.

As quoted in Government and the War (1918) by Spenser Wilkinson

Since human beings are highly adaptable it may be possible for an individual with any sort of competence to learn, in the end, according to any teaching strategy. But the experiments show, very clearly indeed, that the rate, quality and durability of learning is crucially dependent upon whether or not the teaching strategy is of a sort that suits the individual