Jeff Foxworthy Quotes

Students who learn to collaborate and negotiate - on Capitol Hill, in the board room, in everyday life - will outperform peers who have higher test scores.

Play is as necessary to the perfect development of a child as sunshine is to the perfect development of a plant.

Chess is a game that benefits people of all ages, especially kids, in any area of life, business, problem solving, and social skills. Chess has the unique ability to combine focus, concentration, imagination, coordination, teamwork, and leadership all at the same time.

Not being a genius, I believe in collaboration, and my background as a problem solver means I've never been afraid to work with people cleverer than myself.

Divisional exercise is a great game of make-believe.

When kids play, they are working on imagining the kind of world we live in.

What constrains or enables the capacity of human beings to work in groups is not so much the technology, but rather the capacity of the human brain to have and monitor social interactions.

Music teaches people to work together, which is maybe one of the most important skills.

Anything where people have to work together makes me cry.

Children have such vibrant minds. They need to play. They need to be creative. They need to imagine. It's so important for their sense of self discovery. And it helps them learn problem-solving.

Most decisions are not binary, and there are usually better answers waiting to be found if you do the analysis and involve the right people.

I know, for myself, I probably work a lot better in that - in the group environment. Only because if I am coming up short, someone else helps.

Kids need time for problem solving, critical thinking, applying knowledge through project-based instruction, working in teams, falling down and getting right back up to figure out what they didn't understand and why.

American culture is very good at interpersonal relationships and people skills, whereas we're incredibly adept at academics and straightforward 19th-century Victorian education.

Kids are generally rotten until the age of about six, when they become people.

In a world that places a growing premium on social skills, education systems need to do much better at fostering those skills systematically across the school curriculum.

When I work with other people, I try to make up for their shortcomings with my strengths, and I let others make up for my flaws with their strengths. I try to co-operate with people around me when working in a group. I like to enhance team spirit on set. I try to get everyone involved in the action.

Play permits the child to resolve in symbolic form unsolved problems of the past and to cope directly or symbolically with present concerns. It is also his most significant tool for preparing himself for the future and its tasks.

From a child's play, we can gain understanding of how he sees and construes the world--what he would like it to be, what his concerns are, what problems are besetting him.

The trick to having good ideas is not to sit around in glorious isolation and try to think big thoughts. The trick is to get more parts on the table.

What will a child learn sooner than a song?

Children need nature for the healthy development of their senses, and therefore, for learning and creativity.

In some small field each child should attain, within the limited range of its experience and observation, the power to draw a justly limited inference from observed facts.

I am most heartened when I'm talking to a team when they're reasoning to each other.

From 1997 to 2003, there was a decline of 50 percent in the proportion of children nine to twelve who spent time in such outside activities as hiking, walking, fishing, beach play, and gardening, according to a study by Sandra Hofferth at the University of Maryland.