Accounts Quote by John Lubbock

Since we all have different cognitive profiles, educators should take those individual differences very seriously.

— Howard Gardner

As education becomes inclusive, introspective, cosmic, promoting whole populations to power and privilege, it enthrones a vast, invisible, personal rule over the common mind.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

Sometimes the most brilliant and intelligent students do not shine in standardized tests because they do not have standardized minds.

— Anonymous

Too much of the education system orients students toward becoming better thinkers, but there is almost no focus on our capacity to pay attention…

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

Sometimes getting away from school is the best thing that can happen to a great mind.

— Ken Robinson

Sometimes the most brilliant and intelligent minds do not shine in standardized tests because they do not have standardized minds.

— Diane Ravitch

Although I went to college as a youth, I never considered it necessary to steep oneself in academic learning, in order to learn how…

— Luther Burbank

I've moved a lot of my students into a high state of mind, but they don't do the things I have shown them how…

— Frederick Lenz

I have always had the greatest respect for students. There is nothing I hate more than condescension—the attitude that they are inferior to you.…

— Mark Van Doren

I gloomily came to the ironic conclusion that if you take a highly intelligent person and give them the best possible, elite education, then…

— Halton Arp

The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself; absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity.

— Bryant H. McGill

If you look at the people who have high impact, they have pretty general knowledge. They don't have a really narrowly focused education.

— Larry Page