Quotes from Guy Claxton

Learning power comprises both literacy and numeracy, and is ultimately more fundamental than either of them.

We have to learn to make our own way through a complex world without the benefit of an accepted trustworthy route map.

If we want young people to develop the habits of thinking for themselves, using their imagination, being open to new ideas, saying when they don't understand, and exploring real challenges together, then they have to see their teachers doing the same thing.

Children's success in life depends not on whether they can read, but on whether they do

In a complicated, fast-changing world the intelligent path is to let go of being a Knower and embrace being a Learner.

the difference between constantly feeling you have to prove yourself, and feeling free to improve yourself.

But the culture that a teacher creates acts like a magnetic field that attracts, stimulates, and rewards certain habits of mind and not others.

To flourish in this turbulent and tricky world, a strong, agile, curious mind is an essential.

It is the kind of learning you are practising that is important, not the subject-matter you are practising on.

Underneath the visible problems with reading and writing lies the deeper problem of 'illearnacy': an acquired disabling of learning courage and learning initiative.