Rene Descartes Quotes

I think with every book you realize you are partway through and there is something really elementary that you should have researched.

Efforts to develop critical thinking falter in practice because too many professors still lecture to passive audiences instead of challenging students to apply what they have learned to new questions.

The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.

The finest minds seem to be formed rather by efforts at original thinking, by endeavors to form new combinations, and to discover new truths, than by passively receiving the impressions of other men's ideas.

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.

The methodologies and best practices used to develop software can be applied successfully to any challenge in life.

Kids aren't dumb - they might not get something, but they're going to figure it out.

Programming allows you to think about thinking, and while debugging you learn learning.

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

Skills acquisition is really at the heart of what it means to learn.

When we see something as a problem, we have to try and solve it and the best way is generally through education.

I learned to play chess at a young age, and I think that's where learning to plan things out and put things in position, that was the best thing for me.

Our education system teaches the young what to think, not how to think. And if you ever wonder why so many things don't work properly any more, or why you can't get any sense out of so many organisations, this is one of the main reasons.

Science and math are hard for everybody, and it's usually not a matter or being born gifted at it or not. It's hard work, but it can be a lot of fun!

My students may have dexterity with the equations they're required to know, but they lack the capacity to apply their knowledge to real-life problems. This critical shortcoming appears in high school and possibly in elementary grades - long before college.

Philosophy is not just about talking or lecturing or even reading long, dense books. In fact, it is something men and women of action use - and have used throughout history - to solve their problems and achieve their greatest triumphs. Not in the classroom but on the battlefield, in the forum, and at court.

I would say I have become a lot smarter in the way I understand things.

I just love to read, learn, and think through complex things.

Children need to have both time to think and the motivation to think for themselves, to develop an expert reading brain, before the digital mode dominates their reading. The immediacy and volume of information should not be confused with true knowledge.

On 'MythBusters,' a lot of what we do does not fall into any category of things we have ever done before. There's a lot of problem solving to figure out how to even approach a given problem. A background in science or engineering helps a lot.

I think philosophy is extremely good training for anyone who wants to do anything. Although that is an idea which people may speak scornfully of now, I think it does teach one to

What is education but a process by which a person begins to learn how to learn?

We've taught you that the earth is round, That red and white make pink, And something else that matters more - We've taught you how to think.

The greatest progress that the human race has made lies in learning how to make correct inferences.