Ken Bain Quotes

#1. Every student is unique and brings contributions that no one else can make.

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#2. The best teaching is often both an intellectual creation and a performing art.

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#3. Young children who constantly hear "person" praise ("you're so smart to do this well") as opposed to "task" praise ("you did that well") are more likely to believe that intelligence is fixed rather than expandable with hard work.

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#4. You have to be confused," Dudley Herschbach, the Nobel Prize-winning chemist from Harvard, confessed, "before you can reach a new level of understanding anything." In many disciplines, especially

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#5. Steele found, for example, that if he could convince women who took difficult mathematics examinations that everyone connected with the test assumed they would perform as well as men, that they did.

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#6. Recognizing that words are symbols for ideas and not the ideas themselves.

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#7. The moments of the class must belong to the student - not the students, but to the very undivided student. You don't teach a class. You teach a student.

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