Quotes About Autonomy

more and more I come to loathe any dominion of one over another; any leadership, any imposition of the will.

I hired top-notch people, trusted them to do their jobs, and then came to grips with the fact that I wouldn't be coaching as much.

On data: We are the drivers, not the driven.

If you are an effective manager of your self, your discipline comes from within; it is a function of your independent will.

When the purge of teacher individualism is unrestrained, eccentricity, initiative and individuality become the casualties.

The first move of leadership is learning to think for yourself.

When you depend on another's perceptions to match your expectations, you're setting yourself up for disappointment.

You do not have to protect people's pocket books. They'll do a better job of that than you will.

Your leadership depends on you. You can only be a great leader when you can lead yourself well first.

The best of all leaders is the one who helps people so that eventually they don't need him.

Following the herd reduces you to a cow.

Spoon feeding, in the long run, teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

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

Children learn how to make good decisions by making decisions, not by following directions.

We need to look at learning as the product of educational self-organization. It's not about making learning happen; it's about letting it happen.

The bottom line is, if you're not the one controlling your learning, you're not going to learn as well.

We must act as if our institutions are ours to create, our learning is ours to define, our leadership we seek is ours to become.

Education is a self-organizing system, where learning is an emergent phenomenon.

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

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

We are learning, day by day, about the gift of agency that allows us to experience the consequences, good and bad, of our own choices.

Capacity building originally meant helping people to help themselves. Now it means required training to deliver imposed policies.

I'm very involved with learning to be self-sufficient.

I do not much believe in education. Each person ought to be his or her own model, however frightful that may be.