“ To learn how to do, we need something real to focus on — not a task assigned by someone else, but something we want to create, something we want to understand. Not an empty exercise but a meaningful,… Lori McWilliam Pickert
“ Worksheets - the archenemy of abundant, purposeful reading (and discussion and writing). Mike Schmoker
“ The beginning [of a journey] is a terrible time to plan. It's the moment of greatest ignorance. In self-directed education, a lot of the value comes from exploiting opportunities that arise well out t… James Marcus Bach
“ When we unnecessarily elongate the process of "learning to read," we postpone "reading to learn" - learning itself - by years. Mike Schmoker
“ One of the most important things one can do in life is to brutally question every single thing you are taught. Bryant McGill
“ Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend, the cold, obscure shelter where moult the wings which will bear it farther than suns and stars. He who should inspire and lead his… Ralph Waldo Emerson
“ Dwelling much on the contemplation of little things, [we] are in danger of losing the intellectual appetite. L.H. Sigourney
“ We put our children through their paces in school not so that they will learn something, or master something, or meet any standards. No. We give them tools so that they can experience the joy, the pas… Marc Aronson
“ Education is that process by which thought is opened out of the soul, and, associated with outward . . . things, is reflected back upon itself, and thus made conscious of its reality and shape. It is… Amos Bronson Alcott
“ A Fairy must make her own way in the world, for the world will never make way for her. That, incidentally, is the First Theorem of Questing Physicks, which you’ll learn all about when you’re older and… Catherynne M. Valente
“ After the woman left, Gran, staring out back at the Zebra Forest, said to me, 'I'm a liar, I'll admit. But I pride myself on being a really good liar. That's part of my educational philosophy, too, An… Adina Rishe Gewirtz
“ I find endless sustenance in the creative. I freely drink from the fountain of knowledge. I'm forever the student - considered the teacher. Truth Devour
“ You go to a great school not so much for knowledge as for arts and habits; for the habit of attention, for the art of expression, for the art of assuming, at a moment’s notice, a new intellectual posi… William Cory
“ The moment a person feels he has nothing left to learn is the moment life prepares to hit him hard enough to correct such ignorance. Richelle E. Goodrich
“ [Cornell University will be] an asylum for Science—where truth shall be sought for truth's sake, not stretched or cut exactly to fit Revealed Religion. Andrew Dickson White
“ I received comments on how extraordinary it was that I could keep up speaking for exactly 45 minutes. Indeed, in an age of soundbites lasting some seconds and of quick quotes in the news, all those mi… Robbert Dijkgraaf
“ The new naval treaty permits the United States to spend a billion dollars on warships—a sum greater than has been accumulated by all our endowed institutions of learning in their entire history. Unint… Abraham Flexner
