Eric Lefkofsky Quotes

Not everything that happens in an in-person classroom is currently replicated with an online course, and perhaps the experience will never be the quite the same. But there are new opportunities that online learning opens up that would have never been possible without this technology.

With Skype video calling, teachers can provide their students with first-hand knowledge from experts around the world and with other classes who are studying the same subject halfway across the world.

The old ways of teaching are slow and expensive. But with mobile, cost plummets, access broadens, and pedagogy rises.

I don't think we will put higher-ed out of business. I think we'll evolve it. More access, higher quality, lower costs, more global reach.

The future of education is individualized education.

I am not trained to be a director or an actor. I have learnt everything by watching other people work and studying their work.

Improvisation and new learning are not private processes; they are shared with others at every age. We are called to join in a dance whose steps must be learned along the way, so it is important to attend and respond. Even in uncertainty, we are responsible for our steps.

People learn twenty-five percent from their teacher, twenty-five percent from listening to themselves, twenty-five percent from their friends, and twenty-five percent from time.

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

Humans hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn - when they do, which isn't often - on their own, the hard way.

There are those who spend their lives studying it and those who spend their lives doing it.

I must say, the people who started this whole Masterclass series have been very helpful and very intelligent to point out certain things and also give me some guidance, "isn't there something missing, shouldn't we address this or that?" so it's not completely alone out of the blue. It's very well thought through.

I come from a very small, poor town just outside of the Chicago area and I know what it's like to dream and accomplish some of your goals, but I would never want to do a show where I am preaching to anyone because I do not like being preached at. I want to learn right along with my audience and every show will be a collaborative effort. I am so thankful to Debra Lee and everyone at the BET Network for providing me with this unique opportunity and platform.

I believe, the [Gunnar] Myrdal study had been made, and if we hadn't had anything else to raise questions, this in itself would have been something to provoke thought in the direction of the value of accommodating leadership.

The virtue and the strength of UWC is that it provides small, but powerful cells of innovation, catalysts for change, breaking barriers of habit and opening broader vistas of experience for both pupils and educationalists.

Economics is a social science, not a physical science.

We are stronger when we listen,and smarter when we share.

I think classes can be the most fun. And if you want to make it a social thing and you want to go with friends, then that's the way to do it.

People learn more from observation that they do from conversation.

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

Making mistakes and learning from them is crucial to winning.

It's the desire to study the human condition, the desire for collaboration, to learn and absorb, and to lead a well-examined life.

This is not the wisdom of the crowd, but the wisdom of someone in the crowd. It’s not that the network itself is smart; it’s that the individuals get smarter because they’re connected to the network.

Communists should set an example in study; at all times they should be pupils of the masses as well as their teachers.

I think the fact that you don't have to go to a class and embarrass yourself if you're not comfortable with your body.