Naveen Jain Quotes

Just think of the opportunities we can unlock by making education as addictive as a video game. This type of experiential, addictive learning improves decision-making skills and increases the processing speed and spatial skills of the brain. When was the last time your child asked for help with a video game?

Children need to have both time to think and the motivation to think for themselves, to develop an expert reading brain, before the digital mode dominates their reading. The immediacy and volume of information should not be confused with true knowledge.

It has been proven time and time again in countless studies that students who actively participate in arts education are twice as likely to read for pleasure, have strengthened problem-solving and critical thinking skills, are four times more likely to be recognized for academic achievement, four times more likely to participate in a math and science fair.

Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence.

My mother cared more about how you reasoned than about the conclusions you reached.

Thinking - in particular abstract thinking, which most of us are introduced to through the study of mathematics and literature - helps us learn that we can become problem solvers.

There is an idea that a mind is wasted on the arts unless it makes you good in math or science. There is some evidence that the arts might help you in math and science.

We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.

One seeks to equip the child with deeper, more gripping, and subtler ways of knowing the world and himself.

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

Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.

Common Core, the initiative that claims to more accurately measure K-12 student knowledge in English and math, also encourages children to step up their 'critical thinking.'

Scientific research and other studies have demonstrated that arts education can enhance American students' math and language skills and improve test scores which in turn increase chances of higher education and good jobs in the future.

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

Education should learn from the positive side of gaming - reward, accomplishment, and fun.

Kids need time for problem solving, critical thinking, applying knowledge through project-based instruction, working in teams, falling down and getting right back up to figure out what they didn't understand and why.

Math proficiency is the gateway to a number of incredible careers that students may never have considered.

I have no doubt that the digital immersion of our children will provide a rich life of entertainment and information and knowledge. My concern is that they will not learn, with their passive immersion, the joy and the effort of the third life, of thinking one's own thoughts and going beyond what is given.

I learned to play chess at a young age, and I think that's where learning to plan things out and put things in position, that was the best thing for me.

Our education system teaches the young what to think, not how to think. And if you ever wonder why so many things don't work properly any more, or why you can't get any sense out of so many organisations, this is one of the main reasons.

My students may have dexterity with the equations they're required to know, but they lack the capacity to apply their knowledge to real-life problems. This critical shortcoming appears in high school and possibly in elementary grades - long before college.

I just love to read, learn, and think through complex things.

A high IQ individual can't deal in an industry that's subjective.

Kids aren't dumb - they might not get something, but they're going to figure it out.

I was never very good at school with... humanities... anything which was more a matter of opinion.