Top 23 Claxton Quotes
#2. Underneath the visible problems with reading and writing lies the deeper problem of 'illearnacy': an acquired disabling of learning courage and learning initiative.
Guy Claxton
#3. People used to call me Bond in the street. It was impossible to avoid crowds of people all over the place and blinding flashguns. The Beatles had to run the gauntlet as well, but at least there were four of them!
Sean Connery
#4. Parents and educators need to establish a culture in which security and clarity of expectations are balanced with the encouragement of playfulness, inquisitiveness and self reliance.
Guy Claxton
#5. People see their own lives as stories; a lifelong story with a single hero or heroine ... much contemporary unhappiness is due to the fact that people in high tech societies receive neither strong myths and stories from their culture nor the ability to construct their own ... they lose the plot.
Guy Claxton
#6. The more kindness and justice are challenged, the more we must embrace them. Only when you are challenged - and only when you challenge yourself - do you discover what truly matters.
David Levithan
#7. We have to learn to make our own way through a complex world without the benefit of an accepted trustworthy route map.
Guy Claxton
#8. He who tries to have it all ends up with nothing.
Jeff Gunhus
#10. If we want young people to develop the habits of thinking for themselves, using their imagination, being open to new ideas, saying when they don't understand, and exploring real challenges together, then they have to see their teachers doing the same thing.
Guy Claxton
#11. If you are a short-term trader, you have the right to come and go from our funds.
Louis Navellier
#12. You can be as you choose to be. It's an act of discipline sometimes, but it can be done.
Kevin Costner
#13. Writing is one of the most assertive things a person can do.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#14. Researchers have reported that the brain and central nervous system actually run more efficiently on ketones than they do on glucose.
Gary Taubes
#15. I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.
Stephen King
#16. Creativity may have killed a few cats, but evolution certainly eliminated many more incurious ones.
Guy Claxton
#17. Learning power comprises both literacy and numeracy, and is ultimately more fundamental than either of them.
Guy Claxton
#18. I write and draw from the gut. I often don't know what my stories are about until they're done.
Jeff Lemire
#19. I don't know where he begins and where I end, but maybe that's the glory of who we've become. We begin and end together. We're a puzzle that fits perfectly together, where we fit nowhere else. And right now we're seeking peace in the only place we know to look - each other.
Lisa Renee Jones
#20. The constant need to move on, and to document progress, in normal schools means that education tends to be cut up into bite sized task..
Guy Claxton
#21. Less-creative people can't shift gears. Very creative people move between these two states intuitively.
Guy Claxton
#22. The message of biblical Christianity is 'God loves me so that I might make him- his ways, his salvation, his glory, and his greatness- known among all nations.' Now God is the object of our faith, and Christianity centers around him. We are not the end of the gospel; God is'
David Platt
#23. Having a chance to be someone other than yourself and to act out stuff that makes people look at you, like, wow, and that's why I love acting so much.
Quinton Aaron
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