Quotes About Engagement

We must school and train ourselves to deal personally with the unconverted. We must not excuse ourselves, but force ourselves to the irksome task until it becomes easy.

How many students ... were rendered callous to ideas, and how many lost the impetus to learn because of the way in which learning was experienced by them?

Quality in education is what makes learning a pleasure and a joy.

We are all in the business of sales. Teachers sell students on learning, parents sell their children on making good grades and behaving, and traditional salesmen sell their products.

Meaningful student involvement is the process of engaging students as partners in every facet of school change for the purpose strengthening their commitment to education, community & democracy.

Learning and entertaining can go hand-in-hand.

We need to bring learning to people instead of people to learning

Fun is just another word for learning.

Nothing has happened in education until it has happened to a student.

The Lord didn't make Lehi a mere spectator, watching and learning from afar. Instead, the Lord taught his prophet by taking him out of the bleachers and placing him right in the middle of the action.

The potential for engaged learning is inversely proportionate to the knowability of the outcome.

Being steeped in the process of learning and exploring keeps me from becoming too nervous. Partly it's about not getting bored.

I really enjoy learning about other people and I'm really curious about other people.

That kind of peer learning, that peer teaching, that peer evaluation, and then administration of insight.

If great lecture is theatre, the future of learning is games.

The text-book is rare that stimulates its reader to ask, Why is this so? Or, How does this connect with what has been read elsewhere?

The real objective isn't just "knowledge" or getting an 80-20 understanding of the situation. The overriding objective is engagement, creating a buzz, mobilizing people to take action.

Education leaders must have the will at times to release leadership to the teachers the parents and the students.

I think we should try to be responsible and educate ourselves. I'm simply doing that and traveling, learning first hand, and seeing first hand what's going on.

It's that engagement of learning that makes us feel alive.

Schools cannot shut their gates and leave the outside world on the doorstep.

There is a big difference between just learning something, and actually LIVING what you learn.

Listening is not only about waiting, but it's also learning how better to ask questions.

One learns by doing, not by learning to do.