Problem-Solving Abilities Quotes

Learning is more than the acquisition of the ability to think; it is the acquisition of many specialized abilities for thinking about a variety of things.

I think we now know the limits also of intelligence and rhetoric.

My investment of time, as an educator, in my judgment, is best served teaching people how to think about the world around them. Teach them how to pose a question. How to judge whether one thing is true versus another.

In an age when schools are facing significant budgetary restraints, there is a greater need than ever to make chess available to as many students as possible. We've assembled the very best in chess education to develop a complete chess curriculum - K through 12. We've designed a program that encourages creativity, instills self-discipline and offers hope and a feeling of accomplishment to millions of children.

The most necessary task of civilization is to teach people how to think. It should be the primary purpose of our public schools. The mind of a child is naturally active, it develops through exercise. Give a child plenty of exercise, for body and brain. The trouble with our way of educating is that it does not give elasticity to the mind. It casts the brain into a mold. It insists that the child must accept. It does not encourage original thought or reasoning, and it lays more stress on memory than observation.

The major weakness of all educational systems is that they neither teach nor encourage the habit of definite decision.

I believe that each young person is different from any other who has ever lived, as different as his fingerprints: that he could bring to the world a wonderful and special way of solving unsolved problems, that in his special way, he can be great.

Every good educator knows that true teaching is to teach kids how to ask the right questions.

We owe it to our kids to inform them and train them how to think, not what to think.

When our children are old enough, and if we can afford to, we send them to college, where ... the point is to acquire the skills not of positive thinking but of critical thinking.

Chess is a game that benefits people of all ages, especially kids, in any area of life, business, problem solving, and social skills. Chess has the unique ability to combine focus, concentration, imagination, coordination, teamwork, and leadership all at the same time.

A woman might claim to retain some of the child's faculties, although very limited and defused, simply because she has not been encouraged to learn methods of thought and develop a disciplined mind. As long as education remains largely induction ignorance will retain these advantages over learning and it is time that women impudently put them to work.

You can't measure a dog's intelligence by giving him a verbal test 'cause it's not on their scale, but that doesn't mean they're not intelligent creatures.

I don't have a very logical and orderly mind.

But the best teams I've encountered have one important thing in common: their team structure and processes cover a full range of distinct competencies necessary for success.

Autistic people's disabilities are widely known, but one of their best-established strengths is their attention to detail.

Intelligence is based on how efficient a species became at doing the things they need to survive.

The fruit of liberal education is not learning, but the capacity and desire to learn, not knowledge, but power.

Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter.

True intelligence operates silently. Stillness is where creativity and solutions to problems are found.

Cats seldom make mistakes, and they never make the same mistake twice.

I believe that I have the executive experience and the ideas and the proven record to fix things.

The extent to which two people in a relationship can bring up and resolve issues is a critical marker of the soundness of a relationship.

Schools should prepare people to build things, not just to think things.

We should try to introduce our children to science today as a rebellion against poverty and ugliness and militarism and economic injustice.