Cooperative Learning Quotes

There is an extraordinary collaborative spirit when you are learning and growing.

Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other students that was called cheating. The curriculum sent the clear message to me that learning was a highly individualistic, almost secretive, endeavor. My working class experience...was disparaged.

Our children were trained to look after each other.

Learning isn't something you should only do solo.

[The Barefoot College is] the only college where the teacher is the learner and the learner is the teacher.

Train the right way. Help each other. It's a form of socialism without the politics.

In science, the whole system builds on people looking at other people's results and building on top of them. In witchcraft, somebody had a small secret and guarded it - but never allowed others to really understand it and build on it. Traditional software is like witchcraft. In history, witchcraft just died out. The same will happen in software. When problems get serious enough, you can't have one person or one company guarding their secrets. You have to have everybody share in the knowledge.

Teamwork doesn't come naturally. It must be taught.

Pair up in threes.

People learn more if they're learning in directly engaging ways.

We should seek to be fellow students with the pupil, and should learn of, as well as with him, if we would be most helpful to him.

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilization...Without it, the imagination is but the echo of the self, trapped in a soundproof chamber, reverberating upon itself until it is spent in exhaustion or futility.

Intelligence is not a competition," she said. "There is plenty to go around, and there are many ways it can be demonstrated.

One thing I learned particularly at Yale was how to work with others

Each co-operative institution will become a school of business in which each member will acquire a knowledge of the laws of trade and commerce.

Improvisation and new learning are not private processes; they are shared with others at every age. We are called to join in a dance whose steps must be learned along the way, so it is important to attend and respond. Even in uncertainty, we are responsible for our steps.

Only dead mathematics can be taught where the attitude of competition prevails: living mathematics must always be a communal possession.

I didn't really have a normal high school experience. I was home-schooled and went to a co-op, so basically a school with about maybe 200 other home-schooled kids that would come together for classes.

In a very alert and bright state of society people learn co-operation by themselves, but in older and quieter conditions of laboring enterprise, such a bill as I propose will point out the way to mutual exertion.

I intend no Monopoly, but a Community in Learning; I study not for my own sake only, but for theirs that study not for themselves.

Hence we did not foster competition in our school, on the contrary.

I have a home-school group with a couple of my friends. We switch off going to each others' houses and going to the library to do art and stuff. It's almost like our own little school - a really little school.

Education must begin with the solution of the student-teacher contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students.

I've only got anywhere with Minecraft by getting my friends to explain it.