Quotes About Engagement And Learning

#1. Do not lose heart. We were made for these times ... For years we have been learning, practicing, been in training for ... and just waiting to meet on this exact plain of engagement.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#2. Professional development is a collective resource, not a personal prerogative. Peer engagement forges powerful links between teacher learning and student growth.

Laura Lipton

#3. The one thing I've come to figure out is this equation where the more uncomfortable I am, the better I'm going to look. I'm like, "This one really hurts. I must look awesome!" The corsets are uncomfortable, but they are so flattering. No, my waist will never be that small.

Kristin Bauer Van Straten

#4. Gratefulness and forgiveness leads to happiness.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#5. It's that engagement of learning that makes us feel alive.

Brendon Burchard

#6. The real objective isn't just "knowledge" or getting an 80-20 understanding of the situation. The overriding objective is engagement, creating a buzz, mobilizing people to take action.

Richard Pascale

#7. Until they enter elementary school most youngsters are motivated by the challenge itself, not by stars or grades or rewards. This is called mastery motivation and is the form of learning most likely to lead to both engagement and persistence, and ultimately to expertise.

Madeline Levine

#8. Student engagement is the product of motivation and active learning. It is a product rather than a sum because it will not occur if either element is missing.

Elizabeth F. Barkley

#9. Learning to "just say no" to emotional reactions isn't repression. Saying no means not engaging the frustration, anger, judgment, or blame. Without engagement, you won't have anything to repress.

Doc Childre

#10. ( ... ) Language acquisition might be like other biological functions. The linguistic clumsiness of tourists and students might be the price we pay for the linguistic genius we displayed as babies, just as the decrepitude of age is the price we pay for the vigor of youth.

Steven Pinker

#11. We need to create schools that are organized to meet the needs of the kids they serve instead of what we've been doing. We expect kids to adjust to the schools and if they can't, we say something is wrong with the child - instead of focusing on engagement and nurturing the love of learning in kids.

Pedro Noguera

#12. To increase student engagement and ownership of learning, we should give students opportunities to do meaningful work - work that makes a difference locally, nationally, and globally.

Eric Williams

#13. We joined a Conservative synagogue. I began learning through engagement, rote and reading. Suddenly, I belonged ... well, to the extent that a novelist can ever feel she is part of a group; we may be part of a minyan, but we're not fully merged into the community.

Susan Isaacs

#14. People are buying only one thing from you: the way the engagement (hiring you, working with you, dating you, using your product or service, learning from you) makes them feel.

Seth Godin

#15. If God can't do it, then it can't be done, nor was it meant to be done!

Angel Brown

#16. Big Picture Learning. Since 1996, with the opening of its flagship public high school, the Met, in Providence, Rhode Island, Big Picture Learning has been creating places that cultivate engagement rather

Daniel H. Pink

#17. Anyone who used more than three chords is just showing off.

Woody Guthrie

#18. There is a crack in everything God has made

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#19. Needs cause motivation. Deep-rooted desires for esteem, affection, belonging, achievement, self-actualization, power, and control motivate us to push for what we want and need in our lives.

Lorii Myers

#20. fast-food/gas-pump

Nicholson Baker

#21. Rather than assuming that education is primarily about preparing for jobs and careers, what would it mean to think of education as a process of guiding kids' participation in public life more generally, a public life that includes social, recreational, and civic engagement.

Mizuko Ito

#22. A preoccupation with achievement is not only different from, but often detrimental to, a focus on learning. Thoughts and emotions while performing an action are more important in determining subsequent engagement than the actual outcome of that action.

Alfie Kohn

#23. In our democratic society, the library stands for hope, for learning, for progress, for literacy, for self-improvement and for civic engagement. The library is a symbol of opportunity, citizenship, equality, freedom of speech and freedom of thought, and hence, is a symbol for democracy itself.

Vartan Gregorian

#24. Learning how young people work is imperative - because getting the most out of employees can be the difference between success and failure for many companies.

Charlie Caruso

#25. The world does not need a better definition of issues, or better planning or project management. It needs the issues and the plans to have more of an impact, which is the promise of engagement.

Peter Block

#26. A teacher's failure to create an intellectually reflective, engagement for learning is not simply malpractice but it is immoral particularly for students who cannot withdraw.

John Goodlad

#27. If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.

Thomas Carlyle

#28. Learning always occurs in a context of taking action, and they value engagement and experience as the most effective strategies for deep learning.

Richard DuFour

#29. There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement.

Galen Rowell

#30. A good attitude for a woman is to be confident, and to be confident is to be natural.

Emmanuelle Alt

#31. was calculated to kill off democracy.

Roger Scruton

#32. As students cross the threshold from outside to insider, they also cross the threshold from superficial learning motivated by grades to deep learning motivated by engagement with questions. Their transformation entails an awakening
even, perhaps, a falling in love.

John C. Bean