Eleanor Duckworth Quotes

#1. Real learning, attentive, real learning, deep learning, is playful and frustrating and joyful and discouraging and exciting and sociable and private all the time, which is what makes it great.

Eleanor Duckworth

#2. Of all the virtues related to intellectual functioning, the most passive is the virtue of knowing the right answer. Knowing the right answer requires no decisions, carries no risks, and makes no demands. It is automatic. It is thoughtless

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#3. You don't want to cover a subject; you want to uncover it.

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#4. But it's not the pressure of data that gives rise to the understanding. It's, on the contrary, the child's own struggle to make sense of the data

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#5. Getting people to think about what they think, and asking them questions about it, is the best way I know how to teach,

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#6. Learning is Messy.

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#7. To know enough about things is one prerequisite for (having) wonderful ideas.

Eleanor Duckworth