Quotes About Education

We have to think about ways to raise our children with more opportunities to be exposed to the magnificence of human diversity earlier in their lives. And we have to change the inherently biased elements of so many of our systems.

The value of early intervention programs, even those that have only brief "doses" of positive interaction, can't be underestimated.

predictable, moderate, and controllable activation of the stress-response systems, such as that seen with developmentally appropriate challenges in education, sport, music, and so forth, can lead to a stronger, more flexible stress-response capability—i.e., resilience.

Yes. Unfortunately, our schools are typically not trauma-aware and tend to prohibit many of the regulatory activities we've mentioned: walking, rocking, fiddling with things while listening to a lesson, listening to music with your earbuds while doing homework. "Somatosensory regulation," such as the rhythmic activities we have discussed, actually opens up the cortex and makes the reasoning parts of the brain more accessible for learning.

read. We learn to read. By stimulating specific neural networks in patterned, repetitive ways, we change the brain. This is an experience-based transmission of a skill from one generation to the next; teaching a child changes their brain.

And with this changed brain, the child can grow up and teach what she has learned

We have to think about ways to raise our children with more opportunities to be exposed to the magnificence of human diversity earlier in their lives.

Ahora ya sabéis que todos los días, en el colegio, Peter aprende cosas de todos vosotros. Mira cómo hacéis las cosas y aprende al jugar con cada uno de vosotros, igual que aprende solo con ser vuestro amigo. Por eso quiero daros las gracias por ayudarle, y por dejarme venir a vuestra clase para hablaros del cerebro.

This is essential to understand if you're a teacher, because while the regulated child can learn, the dysregulated child will not.

Our current public education system is good at producing workers, but it can be a miserable place for creators, artists, and future leaders.

If you always read books, you'll always be happy.

I can't possibly go to school today," Michelle pouted, "I have nothing to wear." Her

I'm a philosophy major. That means I can think deep thoughts about being unemployed

A teacher is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to the truth that each student must find for himself.

The aim of education. — Education: to discover but not merely to imitate. Learning techniques without inward experiencing can only lead to superficiality.

A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.

education is what makes a man free!

Assigning ratings to lessons is high-stakes; evaluating the quality of particular elements of pedagogy is low-stakes.

Knowledge and skills are different but linked – knowledge underpins the development of skills

Schools that don't make use of lesson observations, or in which lesson observations are used exclusively for the purposes of quality assurance, are not learning schools: they are static schools.

in order for students to develop skills of the type they are pushing for (such as creativity, problem-solving, teamwork and leadership), they must first have been taught knowledge.

actually believe that giving feedback to teachers about teaching practice is one of the most important things that school leaders can do with their time.

As a general rule, I don't write down anything that I wouldn't be happy for the teacher to read if they wanted. I think this is important, because it helps create a climate of trust. Generally, though, nobody ever asks

Specific Teaching can be thought about as the cake; Non-specific Teaching is the icing.