Quotes About Self-directed

You can't make someone learn something - you really can't teach someone something - they have to want to learn it. And if they want to learn, they will.

Kindergarten, as first conceived by Friedrich Froebel in the nineteenth century, was a place where children would play, as if in a garden. However, the push to teach to the test has squeezed self-directed play out of kindergartens almost entirely, as described by the Alliance for Childhood in their report Crisis in the

There was nothing I could - and wanted to - learn in school. It was just a complete waste of my time.

We are ready to deconstruct anything except the idea that we are self-directed and that the persecutors are always the others.

When we deem our social destiny entirely self-directed and our personal lives self-made, we lose any sense of participating in a collective myth larger than ourselves.

I learned from my peers, and I learned from doing projects, and I learned from mentors, but I learned very little from lectures, and I've talked about how little I attended them.

Leadership that is entirely self-directed will always be pathological. The only thing worse than worshipping an idol is to act like an idol.

I am convinced that the best learning takes place when the learner takes charge.

It is really an alienation to believe that learning is the result of teaching.

The purpose of education is to produce autonomous learners who can continue to learn after they leave school.

I don't think anyone would disagree with this: You are self-directed in daytime, and that's it. So come with it, and bring it on the first take.

Nothing is worth more than my own company, taking care of my mind and spirit has proved to be more valuable than appeasing the crowd. It seems as if I have entered a new age- the age of re-enchantment-where I thrive on discovery, diversity, variety, spontaneity, and most days are self-directed, not programmed by invitations and obligations but, rather, determined by impulse, chance encounters, on the spot decisions, bravery, and new adventures, one after another.

self-directed neuroplasticity (or SDN).

I hate the the word 'disempower,' because it seems kind of cliche, but I do think that we take people's ability to self-teach away by creating this idea that that someone else has to do this for you, that you have to take a course, you have to do it in some formal way.

The children are now working as if I did not exist.

I am in an extended self-directed course of study. That is, I am in control of my own life.

People should be free to find or make for themselves the kinds of educational experience they want their children to have.

We hire for perfect, we manage for perfect, we measure for perfect, and we reward for perfect. So why are we surprised that people spend their precious minutes of self-directed, focused work time trying to achieve perfect? The problem is simple: Art is never defect-free. Things that are remarkable never meet spec, because that would make them standardized, not worth talking about. Rough

School was a waste of time for me. I was bored and left at 16. I started taking correspondence courses at college instead. I did incredibly well. I won an award for my grades.

One's emotions and attitude are self-directed. That is to say, yours are under your own control and not you under them. Therefore, do control your emotions and attitude towards life and towards your fellow humans. -Emeasoba George

What to us looks like independence is really just dependence transferred. We are in such a hurry for our children to be able to do things themselves that we do not see just how dependent they really are. Like power, dependence has become a dirty word. We want our children to be self-directing, self-motivated, self-controlled, self-orienting, self-reliant, and self-assured. We have put such a premium on independence that we lose sight of what childhood is about. Parents

I remember that already as a child I was often intensely interested in things, obsessed by ideas and projects in many areas, and in these topics I learned much on my own, reading books.

The act of accepting the constraints of society and taking up responsibility was the mark, stated Scout Commander sen'Lora, of a mature and self-directed individual, whatever form that individual might take.

I knew that I wanted to follow their example and become a teacher who would help students become self-directed learners.