Education Quote by Scott Berkun

““I believe anyone can teach anyone anything. But I mean this in a specific sense. If you have two dedicated, reasonably intelligent people, one interested in teaching and the other wanting to learn, something great can happen. Think master and apprentice, mentor and protégé. For learning, small numbers win. The success of this one-on-one method is proven throughout history; many so-called prodigies were tutored by a parent or family friend (Einstein, Picasso, and Mozart all qualify). Yes, they had amazing, inherent talent, but they were still privately taught by people invested in their learning. Teaching is intimacy of the mind, and you can’t achieve that if you must work in large numbers.””

Scott Berkun

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (7 ratings)

More by Scott Berkun

“We develop ulcers, high blood pressure, headaches, and other physical problems in part because our stress systems aren’t designed to handle the “dangers” of…

Scott Berkun

Image

“Human beings, who are almost unique [among animals] in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their…

Scott Berkun

Image

“What good is something that scales well if it sucks? Why is size the ultimate goal or even a goal at all?”

Scott Berkun

Image

It seems that bad advice that's fun will always be better known than than good advice that's dull-no matter how useless that fun advice is.

Scott Berkun

When I'm the speaker, I know that special moment [just before speaking] is the only time I will have the entire audience's full attention.…

Scott Berkun

Image

“The best lesson from the myths of Newton and Archimedes is to work passionately but to take breaks. Sitting under trees and relaxing in baths lets the mind wander and frees the subconscious to do work on our behalf. Freeman Dyson, a world-class physi- cist and author, agrees: “I think it’s very important to be idle...people who keep themselves busy…

Scott Berkun

“Defensive management is blind to recognizing how obsessing about preventing bad things also prevents good things from happening or sometimes even prevents anything from…

Scott Berkun

Image

I don’t want to be perfect. I want to be useful, I want to be good, and I want to sound like myself. Trying…

Scott Berkun

Image

“The Greeks were so committed to ideas as supernatural forces that they created an entire group of goddesses (not one but nine) to represent creative power; the opening lines of both The Iliad and The Odyssey begin with calls to them. These nine goddesses, or muses, were the recipients of prayers from writers, engineers, and musicians. Even the great minds…

Scott Berkun

For centuries before Google, MIT, and IDEO, modern hotbeds of innovation, we struggled to explain any kind of creation, from the universe itself to the multitudes of ideas around us. While we can make atomic bombs, and dry-clean silk ties, we still don't have satisfying answers for simple questions like: Where do songs come from? Are there an infinite variety…

Scott Berkun

No one has died from giving a bad presentation. Well, at least one person did, President William Henry Harrison, but he developed pneumonia after…

Scott Berkun

Image

“History can’t give attention to what’s been lost, hidden, or deliberately buried; it is mostly a telling of success, not the partial failures that…

Scott Berkun

Image

Explore all 54 Scott Berkun quotes

More Education quotes

I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial…

Ted Martinez

Image

For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested with some novelty of application to the new world of new times. Knowledge does not keep any better than fish. You may be dealing with knowledge of the old species, with some old truth; but somehow…

Alfred North Whitehead

Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other students that…

Henry Giroux

Image

There's no authoritarian structure at Reed College, but the education is conservative. So what you have is a lot of students who are very…

Donald Miller

Image

“What's the best thing about being in college? Good teachers. They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even…

Nicholas Sparks

Image

“If one has not a head of steel it will burst; if he has not within it a brain of liquid quicksilver, he will not obtain in it a looking-glass; if he has not a skin of tin he will not be able to endure the toil of education; if he has not leaden posteriors he will not be able…

Ioannes Amos Commenius

“let us not teach / what we have learned badly / and not profited by”

H.D. (Hilda Doolittle

Image

“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the solitude and the terror of failure, and the godawful silence and the white paper. And now that I can take it . . . now that I can finally do it . . . I'm really…

Erica Jong