Eric Carle Quotes

The problem I have with schools is, people are taught, 'This is how you do this.' They're not taught about why you do this.

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

The more you learn, if you learn it properly, the more clear you become and the more you know.

If you're willing to put two thoughts into a picture then you're already ahead of the game.

I don't really get things very... intuitively. I mean, I don't immediately understand things. The only way I really get it is by writing it down.

It took me a long time to understand the relationship between ideas and between objective facts. But after I clearly understood this relationship, I didn't fool around with other wild ideas. That is one of the main reasons why I just make my scheme as simple as possible.

I can usually find my own way out of whatever dicey literary or linguistic situations I wander into, but I have to work much harder at the science.

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

I am never satisfied until I can make a mathematical model of what I am studying. If I succeed in making one, I understand. If I cannot, I do not understand.

Education is far less about a set of facts than a way of thinking, than learning how to critically think. And therefore, what I always think should be the basis of education is not answers but questions.

The search for information gives me more confidence, because confidence arises from understanding.

What is education but a process by which a person begins to learn how to learn?

I am convinced that the act of thinking logically cannot possibly be natural to the human mind. If it were, then mathematics would be everybody's easiest course at school and our species would not have taken several millennia to figure out the scientific method.

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

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know, and it's knowing how to use the information once you get it.

I don't look at a problem and put variables in there that don't affect it.

Good questions outrank easy answers.

I think with every book you realize you are partway through and there is something really elementary that you should have researched.

My favourite subjects at school were algebra and logic: making a big problem into something small.

Before I came here I was confused about this subject. Having listened to your lecture I am still confused. But on a higher level.

Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.

I find that when I'm struggling to think of how a six-year-old would feel about something, I just have to go right down to the common denominator, find the simplest way that you can look at an object or a problem, and not muck it up with all of the stuff that adults do and over-analyze.