Students are rewarded for memorization, not imagination or resourcefulness.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Students must have initiative; they should not be mere imitators. They must learn to think and act for themselves - and be free.
Much learning does not teach understanding.
Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.
Memory and creativity are essential to education, but if you teach memory incorrectly, it is a total waste of time, and it will inhibit learning.
Lessons are not given, they are taken.
Too much of the education system orients students toward becoming better thinkers, but there is almost no focus on our capacity to pay attention and cultivate awareness.
We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.
Many students learn best by doing. But because classrooms force the same pace on all students, they limit the degree to which students can truly learn through trial and error. Instead, lectures still force many students to follow material passively and in lockstep pace.
The process of learning requires not only hearing and applying but also forgetting and then remembering again.
Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferrals of information.