Mary Catherine Bateson Quotes

I intend no Monopoly, but a Community in Learning; I study not for my own sake only, but for theirs that study not for themselves.

Education is the sum of what students teach each other between lectures and seminars.

Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other students that was called cheating. The curriculum sent the clear message to me that learning was a highly individualistic, almost secretive, endeavor. My working class experience...was disparaged.

We all learn from each other, and I never really hung out with guys in that way, so I missed out.

I learn so much more in an ensemble movie.

Learning isn't something you should only do solo.

The fun for me in collaboration is, one, working with other people just makes you smarter; that's proven.

I think a major act of leadership right now, call it a radical act, is to create the places and processes so people can actually learn together, using our experiences.

Not only does social life demand teaching and learning for its own permanence, but the very process of living together educates. It enlarges and enlightens experience; it stimulates and enriches imagination; it creates responsibility for accuracy and vividness of statement and thought.

A real education takes place, not in the lecture hall or library, but in the rooms of friends, with earnest frolic and happy disputation.

It is essential to view learning as a total community responsibility.

Most great learning happens in groups. Collaboration is the stuff of growth.

Through dialogue, the teacher-of-the-students and the students-of-the-teacher cease to exist and a new term emerges: teacher-student with students-teachers.

We should seek to be fellow students with the pupil, and should learn of, as well as with him, if we would be most helpful to him.

I can't learn lines comfortably unless I have it done out loud with someone else.

I feel like we can learn from each other by us, being the young generation, giving knowledge to the older guys.

When a species wants to tap the collective intelligence of a population, they don't take a poll; they don't take a vote. They form a real-time system.

I feel we have the opportunity of being part of a new and emerging category for human co-experience.

Human knowledge is never contained in one person. It grows from the relationships we create between each other and the world, and still, it is never complete.

WeWork has always believed that we are better together, and a large part of that is learning from others through meaningful connections and experiences.

Editing is the most companionable form of education.

More is learned in a public than in a private school, from emulation. There is the collision of mind with mind, or the radiation of many minds pointing to one center.

There is no hierarchy of elder knowledge in my social region of things. There are only people learning and sharing in a very complex environment.

We can't live alone in any society. But the best way to help a society or group, is to be the best individual in it that we can be.

Be pupils of the masses as well as their teachers.