Quotes About Education

What any person in the world can learn, almost all persons can learn, if provided with the appropriate prior and current conditions of learning.

We tell them that an ability can be learned and that the task will give them a chance to do that. Or we have them read a scientific article that teaches them the growth mindset. The article describes people who did not have natural ability, but who developed exceptional skills.

In all of my teaching, I think about what I find fascinating and what I would love to learn more about. I use my teaching to grow, and that makes me, even after all these years, a fresh and eager teacher.

They forget the yet. Isn't that what school is for, to teach? They're there to learn how to do these things, not because they already know everything.

Un esfuerzo rico, educado y con contactos funciona mejor.

Les pones etiquetas a tus hijos? Este es el artista, y ese es el científico. Recuerda la próxima vez que no los estás ayudando, aunque los estés elogiando. Recuerda nuestro estudio en el que elogiar la habilidad de los niños hizo que sus cocientes intelectuales disminuyeran. Encuentra una forma de mentalidad de crecimiento para halagarlos.

Como esse estudo era uma espécie de teste de QI, é possível dizer que elogiar a capacidade reduziu o QI dos alunos, e elogiar o esforço elevou-o.

Benjamin Barber, an eminent political theorist, once said, "I don't divide the world into the weak and the strong, or the successes and the failures….I divide the world into the learners and nonlearners.

Children with the growth mindset, on the other hand, couldn't tear themselves away from the hard problems. These were their favorites and these were the ones they wanted to take home. "Could you write down the name of these puzzles," one child asked, "so my mom can buy me some more when these ones run out?

The Brainology program kind of made me change the way i work and study and practice for school work now that i know how my brain works and what happens when i learn.

The focus on constant testing, which grew out of the reasonable desire to measure and standardize children's accomplishments, has intensified their fear of failure. It is certainly important for children to learn to succeed, but it is just as important for them to learn not to fear failure. When children or adults fear failure, they fear risk. They can't afford to be wrong.

I don't have to trust my instructors—I just have to learn from them.

The book is man's best invention so far.

O Brasil precisa ser dirigido por uma pessoa que já passou fome. A fome também é professora.

A liberal-arts education is supposed to provide you with a value system, a standard, a set of ideas, not a job.

Of all the forms in which ideas are disseminated, the college professor lecturing his class is the slowest and the most expensive. You don't have to go to college to learn about the great ideas of Western man. If you want to learn about Milton, or Camus, or even Margaret Mead, you can find them. In paperback. In the library.

Sometimes we speak and feel too much as if 'an education' were a finished product, to be bought and paid for, often with great sacrifice, and bestowed. In reality, education can only be attained by personal effort, and should be for each a continuing process, ending only with life itself, or possibly then just well begun. There are fortunately many roads to personal culture and usefulness, and not all lead through the college campus.

People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.

The biggest problem is people are afraid of poetry, think they can't understand it or that it will be boring.

Education was the most important value in our home when I was growing up. People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.

To the extent that we are all educated and informed, we will be more equipped to deal with the gut issues that tend to divide us.

If there's one thing I've learned about Ivy League people, Beck, it's that you all really like going back to school for reunions.

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. —Albert Einstein

I would really be doing something right, perhaps even important, if I was bringing even a little more compassion into the world through Big Bird.