Paul Wellstone Quotes

There has to be innate circuitry that does the learning, that creates the culture, that acquires the culture, and that responds to socialization.

Of course as children, we all, in all cultures and societies, learn behavior from observation, imitation, and encouragement of various kinds. So by the suggestion made, we all 'pretend' most of the time.

By the early seventeenth century, a new consensus began to arise: the idea that man was born incompetent for society and remained so unless he was provided with 'education.'

I feel that kids are smart, and I feel that kids will understand things even if they don't understand them from personal experience.

You can be self-empowered and still learning about how you think about things daily.

Children learn what they live.

Education is all a matter of building bridges.

Students never think it can be the teacher's fault and so I thought I was stupid. I was frustrated and would come home and cry because I couldn't do it. Then we got a new teacher who made math accessible. That made all the difference and I learned that it's how you present it that makes it scary or friendly.

The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings.

It's my belief that you can take everyone down a logical path if you take them slowly enough, and the trouble is that mathematical brains can get scrambled a little bit on the way. You get a bad teacher, it messes you up for the rest of the journey.

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.

I give the children education.

I'm quite interested in my own mental processes, simply because I'm a failed scientist, and because I'm interested in how the brain and the mind works, and I like to avoid easy descriptions.

We're all influenced by everything unless we're locked in an empty room.

My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.

The mere imparting of information is not education.

I'd ask myself, 'What do I think is really unjust?' That should be a starting point for how you engage with the world.

Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.

We begin with the hypothesis that any subject can be taught effectively in some intellectually honest form to any child at any stage of development.

All children know when something is wrong and they can't understand something - they never need someone to tell them they're stupid. They need help in solving the problem.

The ancient superficial idea of the uniform and progressive growth of the human personality has remained unaltered, and the erroneous belief has persisted that it is the duty of the adult to fashion the child according to the pattern required by society.

What I've always tried to find in my books are points at which the private lives of the characters, and also my own, intersect with the public life of the culture.

Fortunately, most human behavior is learned observationally through modeling from others.

What people will - or will not - laugh at is mainly determined by their social conditioning.