Joey Ramone Quotes

Without question, students need to practice, review, and drill skills, but they should do so only in the spirit of working toward more complex mastery of those skills. Redundant drill of skills is inherently boring and insulting to the learner, and it is one of the most effective methods for turning students off to learning.

We need to make education so much fun that students can't help but learn.

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

Under the old American system the whole body of students at a university were confined to a single course, for which the majority cared little and very many cared nothing, and, as a result, widespread idleness and dissipation were inevitable. Under the new system, presenting various courses, and especially courses in various sciences, appealing to different tastes and aims, the great majority of students are interested, and consequently indolence and dissipation have steadily diminished

It is my ambition that parents can send their children to school with the prospects that they are as interested and excited to learn on their last day of school as they were on the very first.

I think there's too much emphasis placed on learning things by rote that you don't really care about. So what happens to students in school is that they eventually lose interest in learning, because they've been forced to learn the required courses, rather than pursing their passion.

I've found that I really don't like - as most people don't about school that there are subjects which are necessary to learn but you don't really want to learn on top of those ones that you do want to learn. So to take a class for me, a class or two on subjects that I'm really, really interested in and curious about would be awesome.

We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn.

You can force students to learn, to a certain extent, but students aren't happy and employers aren't happy.

Children themselves know they are being cheated. Ultimately we owe it to our children. They are in school for 190 days a year. Every moment they spend learning is precious. If a year goes by and they are not being stretched and excited, that blights their life.

I wasn't a great student; I was lazy. But when I was in sociology class, I listened.

Science is cool! But it's easy for that to get lost in textbooks sometimes.

The best teacher is an entertainer.

My goal in the classroom was always to make sure they were having so much fun that they didn't realize they were learning.

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.

By junior high, I was a horrible student. But during my sophomore year of high school, I did have a fabulous English teacher, and I would go to school just for her class and then skip out afterwards. That's actually when I started writing, although I didn't think of it then as something I might someday do.

I had a public school education - 3,000 kids when I was there. And there were a lot of teachers who would just sit there. You'd come in and sign your name and the teacher would just sit there at the head of the class and you would literally just have to stay in your seat for 40 minutes and that was the only thing you'd have to do in class.

To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without plowing it.

Students Are Not Widgets. Schools Are Not Factories.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

In school, I couldn't see any sense to reading, writing, and arithmetic. Sure, they kicked me out, but for trifles, like continual daydreaming and smoking, that wouldn't be grounds for expulsion nowadays.

America's best teachers are always looking for new ways to bring learning to life.

What we want is more learning in schools and less activism in schools.

College kids want to be coached. They want to be taught. They might resist it a little bit early on, but the more you give, the more you get back.

In addition to a well-funded school system, we need to encourage and exploit innovative approaches for learning outside the classroom.