Quotes About Engagement

There can be no learning without action, and no action without learning

The larger goal of Deep Democracy is not me changing you and you changing me. But we learning how to relate.

Learning of all kinds goes on best, lasts best, and tends to lead itself on more when it grows out of a real focus of interest in the learner.

The best way of learning about anything is by doing.

I'm terrified of being bored and not learning.

The world does not need a better definition of issues, or better planning or project management. It needs the issues and the plans to have more of an impact, which is the promise of engagement.

The trick to education is to teach people in such a way that they don't realize they're learning until it's too late.

Teaching is listening, learning is talking

Education is what people do to you. Learning is what you do to yourself. Focus on being connected, always learning, fully aware and super present.

For many students, school is an obligation, not a joy and a privilege. This means you need to 'sell' the learning to them.

Lecture is the transfer of the notes of the lecturer to the notes of the student without passing through either.

Look about you. Take hold of the things that are here. Let them talk to you. You learn to talk to them.

Teaching is mostly listening, and learning is mostly telling.

People whose talents are not exploited become disenchanted and disruptive.

Fun from games arises out of mastery. It arises out of comprehension. It is the act of solving puzzles that makes games fun. In other words, with games, learning is the drug.

Learning cannot be disassociated from action.

We learn to do by doing.

One thing changes every evening: It's the audience, and I'm working my magic. I'm always learning from it.

I'm glad I understand that while language is a gift, listening is a responsibility. (U.S. poet and writer, 1943- )

The more senses recruited at the moment of learning, the more likely you are to recall it later.

Learning is not watching a video, learning is taking action and seeing what happens.

A successful school has to engage all the people, all the powers, and all the capacities within it.

Reading for pleasure isn't separate from learning to read.

If no one is pissed-off with you then you are dead but just haven't figured it out yet.