Quotes About Learning

We are educating people out of their creative capacities.

There isn't an education system on the planet that teaches dance everyday to children the way we teach them mathematics. Why?

You don't think of Shakespeare being a child, do you? Shakespeare being seven? He was seven at some point. He was in somebody's English class, wasn't he? How annoying would that be?

It's education that's meant to take us into this future that we can't grasp.

One Size Does Not Fit All Some of the most brilliant, creative people I know did not do well at school. Many of them didn't really discover what they could do—and who they really were—until they'd left school and recovered from their education.

When children aren't given the space to struggle through things on their own, they don't learn to problem-solve very well. They don't learn to be confident in their own abilities, and it can affect their self-esteem.

The most powerful method of improving education is to invest in the improvement of teaching and the status of great teachers.

Learning in and about the arts is essential to intellectual development.

Education is the system that's supposed to develop our natural abilities and enable us to make our way in the world. Instead, it is stifling the individual talents and abilities of too many students and killing their motivation to learn. There's a huge irony in the middle of all of this.

Civilization is a race between education and catastrophe.

I've said that education is a living process that can best be compared to agriculture. Gardeners know that they don't make plants grow.

expert teachers fulfill four main roles: they engage, enable, expect, and empower. ENGAGE

The key to raising achievement is to recognize that teaching and learning is a relationship.

Our schools have a doubly hard task, not just improving reading, writing and arithmetic but entrepreneurship, innovation and creativity.

I believe profoundly that we don't grow into creativity; we grow out of it. Often we are educated out of it.

Los procesos educativos actuales no tienen en cuenta los estilos individuales de aprendizaje ni el talento. De ese modo, ofenden el principo de individualidad.

Lo que Einstein parecía entender es que el desarrollo intelectual y la creatividad llegan a través de la comprensión de la naturaleza dinámica de la inteligencia.

What Einstein seemed to understand is that intellectual growth and creativity come through embracing the dynamic nature of intelligence. Growth comes through analogy, through seeing how things connect rather than only seeing how they might be different.

was, "If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never produce anything original." The second was, "Great education depends on great teaching.

there are a variety of ways to express intelligence, and that no one scale could ever measure this.

Una buena educación depende de una buena enseñanza».

Too many feel that what they're good at isn't valued by schools.

Perhaps best known is the case of Koko, the gorilla to whom the Gorilla Foundation taught American Sign Language. Koko learned more than a thousand signs, created compound signs to convey new information, and showed a significant understanding of spoken English.9

What I loved about this was that it illustrated that, when they are very young, kids aren't particularly worried about being wrong.