James Hillman Quotes

The answer is not to standardize education, but to personalize and customize it to the needs of each child and community. There is no alternative. There never was.

A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard.

But the fact is, no matter how good the teacher, how small the class, how focused on quality education the school may be none of this matters if we ignore the individual needs of our students.

There is no single way to educate.

In other words, if a teacher only teaches in one way, then they conclude that the kids who can't learn well that way don't have the ability, when, in fact, it may be that the way the teacher's teaching is not a particularly good match to the way those kids learn.

Our school systems have to realize that everybody doesn't learn the same way, and no one learns without some emotional support.

Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child.

'No Child Left Behind' requires states and school districts to ensure that all students are learning and are reaching their highest potential. Special education students should not be left out of these accountability mechanisms.

I feel there is so much more we can do in improving education, making it accessible and understanding how technology can be a part of the solution.

When you're too robotic and scripted, the students tune you out. So I always tried to use different learning modalities - kinesthetic, auditory, visual, whatever might bring learning to life.

Everyone will tell you how rigid I am, but a teacher has to be flexible. You can't cut the student to your cloth; you have to cut yourself to theirs.

One of our key strategies has been to restructure traditional high schools into small learning communities with personalized attention and a range of options.

Education should not be about building more schools and maintaining a system that dates back to the Industrial Revolution. We can achieve so much more, at unmatched scale with software and interactive learning.

If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it.

A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.

One of the main focuses of my training sessions is to help individuals find their unique voices in the learning process. We all have our strengths, our weaknesses, our styles of learning, our personalities. Developing introspective sensitivity to these issues is critical to long-term success.

The future of education is individualized education.

There will be no more one-size-fits-all. Education will respond to you.

The advent of interactive communications has created an inflection point where it's economical to provide education differently than in the past.

When we teach in pluralistic ways, there are two wonderful dividends. First of all, we reach more students, because some learn best through stories, some through works of art, some through role play etc. Second of all, we show what it is like really to understand something.

When a child is thriving, there is no reason to spend time assessing intelligences. But when a child is NOT thriving - in school or at home - that is the time to apply the lens of multiple intelligences and see whether one can find ways to help the child thrive in different environments.

What's gotten in the way of education in the United States is a theory of social engineering that says there is ONE RIGHT WAY to proceed with growing up.

There isn't a right way to become educated; there are as many ways as there are fingerprints.

Education is at a turning point

It is personal. That's what an education does. It makes the world personal.