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 is the crux of intelligence. It isn't that one person knows more than another, then. In… — Roger Schank Copy Share Image
Everything they teach in school is oriented so that they can test it to show that you know it, instead of taking note of the obvious, which is that people learn by doing what people want to do. — Roger Schank Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Learning happens when someone wants to learn, not when someone wants to teach. — Roger Schank Copy Share Image
Humans are not ideally set up to understand logic; they are ideally set up to understand stories. — Roger Schank Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Education in a deepest sense has always been about doing rather than about knowing. — Roger Schank Copy Share Image
In the end all we have...are stories and methods of finding and using those stories. — Roger Schank Copy Share Image
