David Perkins Quotes

#1. I don't like authority, at least I don't like other people's authority.

A. C. Benson

#2. Teachers and administrators sleepwalk through their responsibilities, dulled and discouraged by the endless pressures and problems.

David Perkins

#3. 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.

David Perkins

#4. 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.

David Perkins

#5. I have a passion for libraries. They are potentially real community centers.

Moshe Safdie

#6. I had been thinking about how greatness always has a hand from luck or fate. That no one ever achieves anything with their will alone. The luck or fate that helped us, amongst many others, was that my sister happened to know these two heavy metal kids David Navarro and Stephen Perkins.

Eric Avery

#7. One never knows when one is going to get ambushed into learning something.

David N. Perkins

#8. One barrier ... is the impoverishment of classroom language, the failure to cultivate a common vocabulary about inquiry, explanation, argument and problem solving.

David Perkins

#9. There were no guarantees that country music, whose roots were in the South, were ready for Charley Pride.

Charley Pride

#10. In order for the brain to comprehend the heart must first listen.

David Perkins

#11. I was never part of the sailing circle, but I enjoy when I'm invited to sail.

Philippe Petit

#12. I prefer images that are less specific, so there is room for everyone's imagination.

Robert Rauschenberg

#13. I do not want that our loyalty as Indians should be in the slightest way affected by any competitive loyalty whether that loyalty arises out of our religion, out of our culture or out of our language.
I want all people to be Indians first, Indian last and nothing else but Indians.

B.R. Ambedkar

#14. the only thing in his head was a couple of drunk hamsters stumbling towards the wheel.

R.C. Dilan

#15. Sometimes the Good is the enemy of the BEST!

David Perkins

#16. 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.

David Perkins

#17. 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.

David Perkins

#18. Predicting correctly is the definition of wisdom.

Harry N. MacLean

#19. I'm a believer and I think that faith is not a bad thing. But faith when we use it to make rules and control people, then it might become a bad thing.

Nikolaj Arcel

#20. I always wondered what hearing one's own obituary might sound like, and I sort of feel like I may have just heard part of it at least.

Spencer Abraham

#21. Learning is a consequence of thinking.

David Perkins

#22. Assessment in this spirit does not concern assignment of grades or evaluation of whether instruction was effective. It's assessment designed squarely to feed into the learning process and make the learning stronger.

David N. Perkins

#23. In teaching for truly lifeworthy learning, might we hope to teach for wisdom?

David Perkins

#24. Here are condoms lined with a topical anesthetic for prolonged action. What a paradox. You don't feel a thing, but you can fuck for hours.

Chuck Palahniuk

#25. Try This What did you learn during your first twelve years of education that matters in your life today?

David Perkins

#26. Learning often means changing the game board, not just learning fancier strategies on the same board with the same pieces.

David N. Perkins

#27. 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.'

David Perkins

#28. He secretly thinks he looks like Marlon Brando, but take a good look a young Marlin Perkins is more like it! Maybe that's what he sees in Annette Kelper - he's an animal lover.

David Sedaris