Henry Winkler Quotes

Context is worth 80 IQ points.

I never thought that I was very intelligent.

By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes.

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 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.

Empty heads, cognitive science has taught us, learn nothing. The powerful cultural and personal flexibility of our species is owed at least in part to our starting off so well-informed; we are good learners because we know what to pay attention to and what questions are the right ones to ask.

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

I consider myself a reasonably intelligent guy. Made straight A's in high school (except for driver's ed and typing).

The difference between intelligence and an education is this: that intelligence will make a good living for you, but education won't do much for you at all.

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.

I think every day you try to soak up as much as you can to learn and understand things better.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

Learning how to learn is life's most important skill.

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.

You can only learn by opening yourself up to engage with different sources of information. How can you learn something if you never see it, read it, or hear it?

I can well imagine that certain writers, even writers that we'd consider today very great writers, may not necessarily have tested highly on IQ just because of their numerical skills, or maybe they may not be very good at memory, and are not particularly good at these kinds of tests.

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

The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.

If little else, the brain is an educational toy.

Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

I hate reading. But I'm trying to force myself because studies have shown that it's literally the only way to matter-of-factly boost your IQ.

Children love this idea that their brain is like a muscle that gets stronger as they use it.

You don't get smarter by not learning stuff.

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