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In a word, learning is decontextualized. We break ideas down into tiny pieces that bear no relation to the whole. We give students a…

— Alfie Kohn

We need to look at learning as the product of educational self-organization. It’s not about making learning happen; it’s about letting it happen.

— Sugata Mitra

It is a fallacy of the old schools to divide man into parcels, elements, thoughts, emotions, intuitions, etc. All human faculties consist of an…

— Alfred Korzybski

For theories and schools, like microbes and corpuscles, devour one another and by their strife ensure the continuity of life.

— Marcel Proust

The world is too complicated in all parts and interconnections to be due to chance alone. I am convinced that the existence of life…

— Allan Sandage

“Were we to confront our creaturehood squarely, how would we propose to educate? The answer, I think is implied in the root of the…

— David Orr

The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to be learned.

— Agnes Repplier

Purposeful action is thus the goal of all that is truly educative.

— John Dewey

Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold it's great…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind. The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have…

— Marva Collins

“Placing young people in dynamic situations, involving multiple interests and without a simple solution, is a catalyst for the development of critical thinking, collaboration,…

— Trevor Gardner

It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing…

— Anonymous