Capability Quote by Bill Lear

“Left to our own devices, we are apt to backslide to our instinctive conceptual ways. This underscores the place of education in a scientifically…

— Steven Pinker

We need to have an educational system that's able to embrace all sorts of minds, and where a student doesn't have to fit into…

— James Hillman

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

— Galileo Galilei

Students are rewarded for memorization, not imagination or resourcefulness.

— Sugata Mitra

“Is not the great defect of our education today—a defect traceable through all the disquieting symptoms of trouble that I have mentioned—that although we…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

The possibilities of thought training are infinite, its consequences eternal, and yet few take the pains to direct their thinking into channels that will…

— Brice Marden

There's an intuition learned through our work. Teaching others doesn't mean they can just go out and replicate it.

— Austin Kleon

“The prescribed mode of thinking that is generated by our educational systems is not conducive to the sort of thinking that new generations should…

— Nora Bateson

“It is amazing how dispiriting it can be to enter a learning environment and to be made immediately to suppress your own exploratory inclinations.…

— Ashim Shanker

It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.

— Agnes Repplier

“conscious learning remains the method and goal of skill-building models. To the extent that students acquire any language at all in such classes, Krashen…

— James Crawford

You can teach students to develop the ability to think reflectively, and you can help them understand what this means, but if they are…

— John Dewey