
Top 12 David Perkins Quotes
#2. We know at lot more now than the 'last time around the 1960s and 1970s - about how to work for smart schools ... ' 'The smart school finds it's foundation in a rich and evolving set of principles about human thinking and learning.'
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#3. Try This What did you learn during your first twelve years of education that matters in your life today?
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#4. In teaching for truly lifeworthy learning, might we hope to teach for wisdom?
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#6. The questions produced before studying the topic turned out to be much deeper and more exciting. It seemed that the formal study of the topic had quenched students' sense of its mystery.
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#7. Education ultimately depends on what happens in classrooms ... between teachers and learners. That is fundamental.' ... 'I hope that teachers will discover the optimism and direction to combat the energy - draining pressures and frustrations of most educational settings.
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#8. In order for the brain to comprehend the heart must first listen.
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#9. One barrier ... is the impoverishment of classroom language, the failure to cultivate a common vocabulary about inquiry, explanation, argument and problem solving.
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#10. We are working so hard in this country on the details of school improvement that we don't always stop to consider the big picture - if we are actually working on the right things.
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#11. Our thinking tends to be hazy, hasty, narrow, or sprawling-causal terms for impulsive. Just like anything else, thinking skills require upkeep. If they aren't nourished, they'll fade away.
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#12. Teachers and administrators sleepwalk through their responsibilities, dulled and discouraged by the endless pressures and problems.
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