Cognitive Skills Quotes

#1. Twelve-year-olds are eager to turn everything into arguments but don't have the cognitive skills to win them.

Linda Perlstein

#2. Regression analyses show that self-efficacy contributes to achievement behavior beyond the effects of cognitive skills

Albert Bandura

#3. Reading develops cognitive skills. It trains our minds to think critically and to question what you are told. This is why dictators censor or ban books. It's why it was illegal to teach slaves to read. It's why girls in developing countries have acid thrown in their faces when they walk to school.

Karin Slaughter

#4. The cognitive skills prized by the American educational establishment and measured by achievement tests are only part of what is required for success in life. Character skills are equally important determinants of wages, education, health and many other significant aspects of flourishing lives.

James Heckman

#5. As technology increasingly takes over knowledge-based work, the cognitive skills that are central to today's education systems will remain important; but behavioral and non-cognitive skills necessary for collaboration, innovation, and problem solving will become essential as well.

Klaus Schwab

#6. Remember, our very first job is to appropriately monitor our teen's safety. After all, if we're not successful at that, then any discussion of cognitive skills is irrelevant.

Madeline Levine

#7. Economists who have studied the relationship between education and economic growth confirm what common sense suggests: The number of college degrees is not nearly as important as how well students develop cognitive skills, such as critical thinking and problem-solving ability.

Derek Bok

#8. Society needs people who ... know how to be compassionate and honest ... Societ y needs all kinds of skills that are not just cognitive; they're emotional, they're affectional. You can't run the society on data and computers alone.

Alvin Toffler

#9. Research shows that for jobs of all kinds, emotional intelligence is twice as important an ingredient of outstanding performance as cognitive ability and technical skill combined.

Daniel Goleman

#10. Cognitive and character skills work together as dynamic complements; they are inseparable. Skills beget skills. More motivated children learn more. Those who are more informed usually make wiser decisions.

James Heckman

#11. A balanced diet and physical activity are vital to academic performance. A healthy diet has a direct link to increased cognitive function and memory skills, decreased absenteeism from school, and improved mood. These advantages can help students stay focused and complete their coursework.

Matt Cartwright

#12. We can't own each other's past. The question is whether we have a future together.

Jostein Gaarder

#13. And yet Nothing here is certain;

Mark Strand

#14. I'm a religious liberty supporter - I strongly believe in that.

Rob Portman

#15. I have soundtracks for a lot of stuff.

Dave Attell

#16. When I talk about "cyborg literacy," I mean a set of skills and social practices that optimize the ability to use physical and cognitive technologies to augment, amplify, or extend human thinking and communication capabilities.

Howard Rheingold

#17. If there is an itch one does want to scratch; but it is much nicer to have neither the itch nor the scratch.

C.S. Lewis

#18. Poetry should be written the way adultery is committed: on the run, on the sly, during the time not accounted for. And then you come home, as if nothing ever happened,

Vera Pavlova

#19. I passed what I thought was a Halloween parade, which was disorienting since I was fairly sure this was May. When I stopped on the corner of Sixteenth Street and made a closer inspection it turned out to be something called a "Gay Pride Parade," which made my stomach turn.

Bret Easton Ellis