Carol S. Dweck Quotes

I am more convinced than ever that mindsets toward learning could matter more than anything else we teach.

The test of truth in life is not whether we can remember what we learned in school, but whether we are prepared for change.

If we had in this room a hundred teachers, good teachers from good schools, and asked them to define the word education, there would be very little general agreement.

In academe, we ought to temper our criticism of the idea of self-help because, in a more complex way, it is precisely what we offer our students through our teaching.

I built a career out of knowing what I don't know.

When I was at school, one of my teachers had two statements hanging from the board all year: 'Be observant' and 'Be empathetic.'

Education best serves students by helping them be more self-reflective.

Not saying I was a bad kid, but I had a lot to learn. You've just got to not be impulsive.

Do you think it is possible to increase your intellectual ability? For decades, I have studied the power of this belief to become reality and watched as the concept of maintaining a 'growth mindset' has taken root in education and parenting circles.

I open 'Mindset' with examples of kids who thrive on difficult challenges.

I like to give myself time to deal with an issue. I get to the root of the matter and learn from it. I don't like to repeat mistakes.

Intellectual and emotional curiosity is what I hope I've taught my children.

I have to do a better job of learning how to adjust.

If you already think you are correct and there's nothing else you can learn in life, then I think you are in trouble.

Everyone is a mixture of fixed and growth mindsets. You could have a predominant growth mindset in an area, but there can still be things that trigger you into a fixed mindset trait.

Knowing what I don't know helps me every day.

I analyse everything I do to see if I can do better, that's how I grew over the years.

Life is just experience, whether it's good or bad, whatever you're doing you should learn from it if you've got the right kind of mindset.

You get better at the thing you do by having to explain it to someone else. That, I think, totally makes my work stronger.

The longer I've gone on in coaching, the more I take everything as information and not as much emotional.

You're able to see situations over and over again and just become comfortable in different decision-making situations. I think that comes with experience.

I think the best time to learn things is when you're hurt. Just sitting back and observing to see how you can be effective in certain parts of the games is important.

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

The number one goal of teachers should be to help students 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.