Chess Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Chess cannot be taught. Chess can only be learned.

— Mikhail Botvinnik

Results show that just one year of chess tuition will improve a student's learning abilities, concentration, application, sense of logic, self-discipline, respect, behavior and…

— Garry Kasparov

Education in Chess has to be an education in independent thinking and judging. Chess must not be memorized...

— Emanuel Lasker

Chess is an effective means to educate and train the human intellect.

— Che Guevara

“I wanted to become world champion, and in this respect school couldn’t give me anything… It is better to be one of the strongest…

— Bobby Fischer

“Learning often means changing the game board, not just learning fancier strategies on the same board with the same pieces.”

— David N. Perkins

“To many people chess is an extreme sport. It requires a lot of thinking.”

— Ljupka Cvetanova

“Educators say that every child can learn, but they understand that children learn at different rates and that some inevitably learn more than others.”

— Diane Ravitch

Chess is a matter of daily training.

— Vladimir Kramnik

You playing chess well is just a reflection of your inner thought process and your ability to maintain discipline throughout. If we can teach…

— Maurice Ashley

Our efforts in chess attain only a hundredth of one percent of their rightful result... Our education, in all domains of endeavour, is frightfully…

— Emanuel Lasker

“You can't really teach a kid anything: you can only show him the way and motivate him to learn it himself.”

— Dave Cullen