Make Just One Change Quotes

“The rigorous process of learning to develop and ask questions offers students the invaluable opportunity to become independent thinkers and self-directed learners.”
― Dan Rothstein, Make Just One Change: Teach Students to Ask Their Own Questions

“Divergent thinking is almost always seen as a gift rather than an acquired and developed skill. But this is far from the truth: divergent thinking is a distinct form of higher-order thinking that can be taught to all ages of students.”
― Dan Rothstein, Make Just One Change: Teach Students to Ask Their Own Questions

“Nobel Prize–winning physicist Niels Bohr: “An expert is someone who has made all possible mistakes in one field and there are no more to make.”
― Dan Rothstein, Make Just One Change: Teach Students to Ask Their Own Questions

“Students who learn the differences between closed- and open-ended questions climb a sharp learning curve in a very small amount of time. We have seen in many settings that it is a transformative moment when the student discovers and truly understands this one important lesson: The construction and phrasing of a question shapes the kind of information you can expect to receive.”
― Dan Rothstein, Make Just One Change: Teach Students to Ask Their Own Questions

“You are ready to learn more when you’ve asked the questions yourself.”
― Dan Rothstein, Make Just One Change: Teach Students to Ask Their Own Questions

“They were, as they said later, quite proudly, “our questions.” The students had a sense of ownership over those questions and”
― Dan Rothstein, Make Just One Change: Teach Students to Ask Their Own Questions

“Her teaching became easier because as students became less dependent on her, she could do more work with individuals to help them “push their thinking deeper.”
― Dan Rothstein, Make Just One Change: Teach Students to Ask Their Own Questions

“Is it not curious, then, that the most significant intellectual skill available to human beings is not taught in school? I can’t resist repeating that: The most significant intellectual skill available to human beings is not taught in school.” (Neal Postman)b”
― Dan Rothstein, Make Just One Change: Teach Students to Ask Their Own Questions