Joseph Campbell Quotes

It's no good trying to teach people who need to be taught.

God help the teacher, if a man of sensibility and genius, when a booby father presents him with his booby son, and insists on lighting up the rays of science in a fellow's head whose skull is impervious and inaccessible by any other way than a positive fracture with a cudgel.

I can get motivated seeing a kid at my son's school overcome a learning disability.

In our education system, we are taught to munch figures and remember them for lifetime. But does it help? We are not taught how to make decisions.

The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.

Teaching is probably the most difficult of all current jobs for an AI to manage. If you don't believe that, then you have never truly taught.

It is a well known fact that a man learns best that which he endeavors to teach others.

The apparent ease with which children learn is their ruin.

Teaching is like trying to hold 35 corks underwater at once.

To teach is part of the very fabric of learning.

Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.

I cheated a lot, because I just couldn't sit and do homework. I usually sat next to someone extremely smart.

You don't have to be a hero to accomplish great things---to compete. You can just be an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.

God has given to every one of us more than fourteen billion cells and connections in our brain. Now why would God give us such a complex organ system unless He expects us to use it?

There is no better way to learn than to teach.

The man who doesn’t make up his mind to cultivate the habit of thinking misses the greatest pleasure in life.

Teaching ... particularly in the 1990s, teaching what is far and away the dumbest generation in American history, is the same as walking up Broadway in Manhattan talking to yourself, except instead of eighteen people who hear you in the street talking to yourself, they're all in the room. They know, like, nothing.

Children not only have to learn what their parents learned in school, but also have to learn how to learn. This has to be recognized as a new problem which is only partly solved.

Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process, where one rehearses constantly while acting, sits as a spectator at a play one directs, engages every part in order to keep the choices open and the shape alive for the student, so that the student may enter in, and begin to do what the teacher has done: make choices.

A large part of the art of instruction lies in making the difficulty of new problems large enough to challenge thought, and small enough so that, in addition to the confusion naturally attending the novel elements, there shall be luminous familiar spots from which helpful suggestions may spring.

Task performed by an unintelligent person should not be rated high.

My defenses were so great. The cocky rock and roll hero who knows all the answers was actually a terrified guy who didn't know how to cry. Simple.

Information is useless if it is not applied to something important or if you will forget it before you have a chance to apply it.

Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to?

Many children struggle in schools... because the way they are being taught is incompatible with the way they learn.