Cognitive Readiness Quotes

When the child begins to think and to make use of the written language to express his rudimentary thinking, he is ready for elementary work; and this fitness is a question not of age or other incidental circumstance but of mental maturity.

At the highest level the first two yards are in your head.

I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always.

So much of what you do physically happens because you've thought about it and mentally prepared for it.

Enlightenments, like accidents, happen only to prepared minds.

Intuition works best when you remember that “tuition” is part of it. You need to have paid ahead of time (ie done your prep work) so as to prepare the ground for intuition.

So you see that the process of education, taken in a large way, may be described as nothing but the process of acquiring ideas or conceptions, the best educated mind being the mind which has the largest stock of them, ready to meet the largest possible variety of the emergencies of life. The lack of education means only the failure to have acquired them, and the consequent liability to be 'floored' and 'rattled' in the vicissitudes of experience.

If we should have to fight, we should be prepared to so so from the neck up instead of from the neck down.

Muster your wits; stand in your own defence.

I know how to prepare my head.

The better educated we are and the more acquired information we have, the better prepared shall we find our minds for making great and fruitful discoveries.

You can break down anything for a child, and you have to know what your child is ready for and what your child is not.

Girls of 7, 8 or 9 years old are not emotionally or psychologically equipped to handle puberty.