Paul Bloom Quotes

How we learn has nothing to do with how brilliant we are.

Memory and creativity are essential to education, but if you teach memory incorrectly, it is a total waste of time, and it will inhibit learning.

The human being acquires a habit of learning. He learns to learn.

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

The real excitement is collaborating with computer scientists and neuroscientists and starting to understand in detail how children learn so much so quickly.

Fluid intelligence is not a Big Five personality trait: It's a measurement of one's ability to rapidly learn and apply a rule set. As an entrepreneur, you're rapidly dealing with different issues, and your ability to switch from one issue to another is very important.

We'd be really screwed if we had to start our life over again as children with our brains right now, because I think we lose the plasticity and flexibility.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

The belief of our Reason is an Exercise of Faith, and Faith is an Act of Reason.

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

People simply learn to process information to the point where it doesn't serve true creativity.

They are deceptively simple. I admit that. But for me, all my life I try to simplify things. As a child in school, things were very hard for me to understand often, and I developed a knack, I think. I developed a process to simplify things so I would understand them.

The rare person is still interested in new advances when they are adults. There is possibly a correlation with intelligence. In any case, you have to be fairly bright to keep learning and changing attitudes as you get older.

Are kids smarter than adults? All evidence points to that being true.

This is ridiculous, I mean, wholly ridiculous. It never did any child any harm to have something that was a tiny bit above them anyway, and I claim that anyone who can follow Doctor Who can follow absolutely anything.

This is at the heart of all good education, where the teacher asks students to think and engages them in encouraging dialogues, constantly checking for understanding and growth.

We learn differently as children than as adults. For grown-ups, learning a new skill is painful, attention-demanding, and slow. Children learn unconsciously and effortlessly.

It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.

The center line of science literacy - which not many people tell you, but I feel this strongly, and I will go to my grave making this point - is how you think.

Children take in more information than we'd like to believe.

I can't talk about anything or write about anything if I don't understand it. So a lot of the stuff that I go through and a lot of the time that I spend is understanding.

Children are very smart, in their own stupid way. A child's brain is like a sponge, and you know how smart sponges are.

I was never really good at anything except for the ability to learn.

Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

As a college student, what really interested me was the human brain and human intelligence.