Top 25 Roger Schank Quotes
#1. School should be about improving a kid's life, about encouraging him to think new thoughts, about giving him new abilities, or about coming up with new ambitions." - Roger Schank.
Peter Rogers
#2. Most days disintegrate like ash at first grasp of memory, which only stows the bright and curious, as does the crow.
Eric Forsberg
#3. I am honored to have had two Hallmark Hall of Fame Productions made from my novels - 'Silver Bells' and 'Follow the Stars Home.'
Luanne Rice
#4. I think the one that's going to be the hardest to make into a film is the one that's probably going to be made into a film, which is 'The Art of Racing in the Rain.' I mean, it's narrated by a dog. How do you do that? But hopefully we'll get to see.
Garth Stein
#6. Learning is about failure and recovery from failure.
Roger Schank
#7. By championing hedonistic consumerism and encouraging individuals of all classes to believe that ownership of a particular object mediated the realities of class, mass media created a new image of the rich.
Bell Hooks
#8. In the end all we have ... are stories and methods of finding and using those stories.
Roger Schank
#9. The only answer that I give to you
is doing it," he said. "A just request
is to be met in silence, by the act.
Dante Alighieri
#10. Much we learn only to forget it again, to stand by the goal, we must traverse all the way to it
Friedrich Ruckert
#11. Questions are the important thing, answers are less important. Learning to ask a good question is the heart of intelligence. Learning the answer-well, answers are for students. Questions are for thinkers.
Roger Schank
#12. On graduating from school, a studious young man who would withstand the tedium and monotony of his duties has no choice but to lose himself in some branch of science or literature completely irrelevant to his assignment.
Charles-Augustin De Coulomb
#13. How often it is that an idea that seems bright bossed and gleaming in its clarity when examined in a church, or argued over with a friend in a frosty garden, becomes clouded and murk-stained when dragged out into the field of actual endeavor. pg. 65
Geraldine Brooks
#14. Humans are not ideally set up to understand logic; they are ideally set up to understand stories.
Roger Schank
#15. Learning happens when someone wants to learn, not when someone wants to teach.
Roger Schank
#16. Sometimes I had to spend a whole day mixing a boiling mass with a heavy iron rod nearly as large as myself. I would be broken with fatigue at the day's end. Other days, on the contrary, the work would be a most minute and delicate fractional crystallization, in the effort to concentrate the radium.
Marie Curie
#17. So, did you peep the trap house that I sent you to? That's where Divine be," I said. His
KIA
#18. Everything they teach in school is oriented so that they can test it to show that you know it, instead of taking note of the obvious, which is that people learn by doing what people want to do.
Roger Schank
#20. If I ever come back to this world, I will enjoy the spring endlessly.
Debasish Mridha
#21. Schools in the future will be judged less because of the credentials that they bestow, and more because of the experiences that they offer.
Roger Schank
#22. No, they'll dance with you and then say I am justly called mysterious," he said.
"You are odious."
"Quite so, but admit you've never danced better than these last few moments when you were too angry to think about it.
Caroline Stevermer
#23. Education in a deepest sense has always been about doing rather than about knowing.
Roger Schank
#24. I have toured around for 45 years and have experience of night halt at more than 400 districts. And that's why I know the reality of this earth.
Narendra Modi
#25. My temperament is not geared to that of a novelist.
Philip Levine
