Learning Impact Quotes

College had a great deal to do with my development as a person. I don't know if I'd be the artist I was if it wasn't for goin' to school like that. School is a good place - it ain't for everybody, but I think it's for most people.

When I traveled through Greece in the '90s, everything [Albert Hoxie] taught me came flooding back and I was able to appreciate the art and culture much more because of him.

... for this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves.

Science can be introduced to children well or poorly. If poorly, children can be turned away from science; they can develop a lifelong antipathy; they will be in a far worse condition than if they had never been introduced to science at all.

Education deserves particular focus because its effects are so long-lasting.

What does learning mean: accumulating knowledge or transforming your life?

There's no question that our children's attention and memory is changing when they are reading too long, too much, too early on digital screens.

Every child must master empathy-based ethics because the rules are changing; the less they apply the less learning them has positive impact

..you do not leave a library; if you do what it wants you to do, you are taking it with you.

The act of learning to read added an entirely new circuit to our hominid brain's repertoire. The long developmental process of learning to read deeply changed the very structure of that circuit's connections, which rewired the brain, which transformed the nature of human thought.

No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.

...suddenly you hit on something that the student really responds to, you can see the eyes open and the complexion change. The life possibility has opened there. All you can say to yourself is, "I hope this child hangs on to that."

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.

Whatever you train, you change your brain.

It is wonderful what a difference learning makes upon people even in the common intercourse of life, which does not appear to be much connected with it.

In some ways, the finding that financial education doesn't provide long-term payoffs is hardly surprising. After all, how much do you remember from your high school chemistry class? Unless you use chemistry at work, you probably don't recall much about ionic bonding.

If I had learned more about business ahead of time, I would have been shaped into believing that it was only about finances and quality management.

We do not know what education can do for us, because we have never tried it.

I really do believe that education, despite this massive potential in transforming human lives, has not received the kind of attention that people should have given to it.

Here are my strong reservations about the wave of computer networks. They isolate us from one another and cheapen the meaning of actual experience. They work against literacy and creativity. They undercut our schools and libraries.

We are cyborgs already. If you learn to read, it causes permanent changes to the structure of your brain for your entire life.

We already know that kids who get put in front of TVs instead of interacting, this is not good in all kinds of ways. And it's just not good for their cognitive - it's not good for their social development - I mean, that is incredible that kids in kindergarten... We should be moving away from screens at all levels of education, not moving into them.

The early study of Euclid made me a hater of geometry.

We often assume that all teachers within a discipline address the same curriculum. This isn't always the case. We frequently find gaps between goals and what is actually taught, and these gaps can have a lasting impact on a child's learning.