Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

Thinking has to be learned in the way dancing has to be learned.

The mind, too, has its regimen. It needs gymnastics, just like the body does.

The Goal of Education is to Help People Use Their Minds Better

Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.

The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.

These will vary in every human being; but knowledge is the same for every mind, and every mind may and ought to be trained to receive it.

The importance of all education lies far more in the training of minds than in any facts which may be absorbed, for trained minds will ascertain the facts as they need to know them. Having learned to reason and to weigh the information they discover, people with such minds will be more nearly educated than any amount of cramming of definite facts into their heads will make them.

Chess is an effective means to educate and train the human intellect.

The mind resorts to reason for want of training.

Logic is the art of thinking well: the mind, like the body, requires to be trained before it can use its powers in the most advantageous way.

By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes.

Play reaches the habits most needed for intellectual growth.

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.

Learning how to learn is life's most important skill.

Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch your own.

My parents encouraged thought. You'll get through life better if you learn how to think.

Math is like going to the gym for your brain. It sharpens your mind.

The human being acquires a habit of learning. He learns to learn.

Your mind is just like your body. It's a muscle you can train and get better at.

Our mind is the most valuable possession that we have. The quality of our lives is, and will be, a reflection of how well we develop, train, and utilize this precious gift.

The most necessary task of civilization is to teach people how to think. It should be the primary purpose of our public schools. The mind of a child is naturally active, it develops through exercise. Give a child plenty of exercise, for body and brain. The trouble with our way of educating is that it does not give elasticity to the mind. It casts the brain into a mold. It insists that the child must accept. It does not encourage original thought or reasoning, and it lays more stress on memory than observation.

Teachers may think they are stuffing minds, but all they are ever affecting is the memory. Nothing can ever be forced into anyone's mind except by brainwashing, which is the very opposite of genuine teaching.

The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think

The single most powerful asset we all have is our mind. If it is trained well, it can create enormous wealth in what seems to be an instant.

What greater work is there than training the mind and forming the habits of the young?