Frantz Fanon Quotes

Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple.

I am a firm believer that if you can explain it to a kid, you're on the right track.

I'm always telling my students that if they can't explain what they are doing, to their grandmothers, then they probably don't understand it themselves.

Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow.

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me understand something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

No one can speak well, unless he thoroughly understands his subject.

If you can’t explain something simply, you don’t understand it.

What I mean is that if you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to someone else. That forces you to sort it out in your mind. And the more slow and dim-witted your pupil, the more you have to break things down into more and more simple ideas. And that's really the essence of programming. By the time you've sorted out a complicated idea into little steps that even a stupid machine can deal with, you've learned something about it yourself... The teacher usually learns more than the pupils. Isn't that true?

It's supposed to be a good thing that he's got this dialogue started. To me, I think, I just took away something bad from it, because, apparently he had to do this not to convince them of anything. To educate them.

You have to work very hard behind the scenes, to make a message clear enough for a lot of people to understand.

A teacher is a person who never says anything once.

A rule to live by: I won't use anything I can't explain in five minutes.

Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.

If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in person.

Education happens to be something that all people, all cultures, need to embrace. Math, science, the words of the world. To be able to speak and be able to have clarity and to be able to think. Those are the greatest of gifts.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

When I'm explaining something to you, if I'm being long-winded, and twisty in a non-productive way, I could make you feel vaguely insulted. And you'd have a right to be.

Communication is about being effective, not always about being proper.

There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.

Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.

I've always been very aware of what I'm saying, but I'm also aware of what you're saying. I always want to make sure that my point is clear.

I would like to enlighten people.

More information is always better than less. When people know the reason things are happening, even if it's bad news, they can adjust their expectations and react accordingly. Keeping people in the dark only serves to stir negative emotions.

I try to just communicate what I want done as clearly and simply as possible.

We need a new model: If you can't explain it, you can't sell it.