Education Quotes by Roger Schank

Questions are the important thing, answers are less important. Learning to ask a good question is the heart of intelligence. Learning the answer-well, answers…

— Roger Schank

Learning happens when someone wants to learn, not when someone wants to teach.

— Roger Schank

Interest is a terrible thing to waste.

— Roger Schank

Humans are not ideally set up to understand logic; they are ideally set up to understand stories.

— Roger Schank

Learning to explain phenomena such that one continues to be fascinated by the failure of one's explanations creates a continuing cycle of thinking, that…

— Roger Schank

The language of the culture also reflects the stories of the culture. One word or simple phrasal labels often describe the story adequately enough…

— Roger Schank

Everything they teach in school is oriented so that they can test it to show that you know it, instead of taking note of…

— Roger Schank

“As long as we see ourselves as rational beings who can think logically and make carefully reasoned decisions about our daily lives, then education…

— Roger Schank

Schools in the future will be judged less because of the credentials that they bestow, and more because of the experiences that they offer.

— Roger Schank

Learning is about failure and recovery from failure.

— Roger Schank

Education in a deepest sense has always been about doing rather than about knowing.

— Roger Schank

In the end all we have...are stories and methods of finding and using those stories.

— Roger Schank

There is one very good reason to learn programming, but it has nothing to do with preparing for high-tech careers or with making sure…

— Roger Schank