Daphne Koller Quotes

Students Are Not Widgets. Schools Are Not Factories.

When you have teachers saying, 'I don't have enough time for hands-on activities,' we need to rethink the way we do education.

One of the tragedies of our educational system is that we've taken this incredibly interesting subject - how the universe works - and made it boring.

The problem with education is school.

We teach teens what we think they ought to know, and we never tell them what they want to know.

One thing I'm hearing a lot is from teachers who have felt that there's something wrong with the extreme group learning, but felt like they couldn't say that out loud. And apparently the discussion is now opening up. I think change is going to be a long time coming.

The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

I believe primary and secondary education is the bedrock of any sustainable society.

I think there's so much negative influence on children in school settings. It becomes learning by rote to pass a test. It's not contextualized.

The wrong things are predominantly stressed in the schools - things remote from the student's experience and need.

As the daughter of a schoolteacher, I feel very strongly that the most important thing in school takes place right there in that classroom, and the interaction between the teacher and the child.

Schools still operate as if all knowledge is contained in books, and as if the salient points in books must be stored in each human brain - to be used when needed. The political and financial powers controlling schools decide what these salient points are.

I think universities are trying to figure out how we could use what we know about learning to change our education system, but it is sort of funny that they don't necessarily seem to be consulting the people who are sitting right there on campus.

Our office acts like a kind of educational establishment and we are very careful who we educate.

An education program is, by definition, a societal program. Work should be done at school, rather than at home.

What makes me angry? The education of children. How in God's name can you expect to have a functioning society the way we teach our kids?

Flipping our classrooms into active learning spaces really is important and having these convenient spaces where people feel comfortable.

That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it, is a principle too obvious to require investigation.

I have learned that, although I am a good teacher, I am a much better student, and I was blessed to learn valuable lessons from my students on a daily basis. They taught me the importance of teaching to a student - and not to a test.

Human education is concerned with certain changes in the intellects, characters and behavior of men, its problems being roughly included under these four topics: Aims, materials, means and methods.

I had a great education. From kindergarten to John Dewey High School in Coney Island, I am public-school educated.

Colleges sort as much as they teach.

There is no less flogging in our great schools than formerly, but then less is learned there.

Of all our institutions public education is the most important. Everything depends on it, the present and the future.

Education in general, and higher education in particular, is on the brink of a huge disruption. Two big questions, which were once so well-settled that we ceased asking them, are now up for grabs. What should young people be learning? And what sorts of credentials indicate they're ready for the workforce?