“it’s not just learning things that’s important. It’s learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things at all that matters.”
― The Phantom Tollbooth
― The Phantom Tollbooth
“the crucial task of education is to teach kids how to learn. To lead them to want to learn. To nurture curiosity, to encourage wonder, and to instill confidence so that later on they’ll have the tools for finding answers to the many questions we don’t yet know how to ask.”
― The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined
― The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined
“You must never feel badly about making mistakes,” explained Reason quietly, “as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.”
― The Phantom Tollbooth: The classic adventure book full of unexpected thrills
― The Phantom Tollbooth: The classic adventure book full of unexpected thrills
“In my view, no subject is ever finished. No concept is sealed off from other concepts. Knowledge is continuous; ideas flow.”
― The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined
― The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined
“It is the connections among concepts—or the lack of connections—that separate the students who memorize a formula for an exam only to forget it the next month and the students who internalize the concepts and are able to apply them when they need them a decade later.”
― The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined
― The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined
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