Eleanor Duckworth Quotes

#1. I don't think," he said, "that a vicar is supposed to beat a bishop to death, or even back to death."
Mr. Berkeley looked down upon the remains of Bishop Bernard.
"If anyone asks, we'll say he fell over," he said. "Lots of times.

John Connolly

#2. 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

#3. 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

Eleanor Duckworth

#4. Virginia Woolf came along in the early part of the century and essentially said through her writing, yes, big books can be written about the traditional big subjects. There is war. There is the search for God. These are all very important things.

Michael Cunningham

#5. Every era casts cancer in its own image.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

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

Eleanor Duckworth

#7. 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

Eleanor Duckworth

#8. Snuggle down in my cocoon, be a butterfly soon.

Dean Koontz

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

Eleanor Duckworth

#10. Learning is Messy.

Eleanor Duckworth

#11. Design has become the cover for unnecessary consumption.

Peter Saville

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

Eleanor Duckworth