I'm no scientist, but I'll dare extrapolate and say that it's pretty obvious that the more you struggle to recall something, the smarter you are!
Chess is a game of stimulation.
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.
Many of you have been reared on the cliche that the purpose of education isn't to stuff your head with facts but to teach you how to think. Wrong.
Some people read only because they are too lazy to think.
Education is far less about a set of facts than a way of thinking, than learning how to critically think. And therefore, what I always think should be the basis of education is not answers but questions.
"Thinking about thinking" has to be a principle ingredient of any empowering practice of education.
Men learn from one another. But all learning is only the exchange of material. No man can give another the capacity to think. Yet that capacity is our only means of survival.
It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts... it is to teach them to think.
When I look at the success I have, it's because of my creative-thinking skills.
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.
Logic is the art of thinking well: the mind, like the body, requires to be trained before it can use its powers in the most advantageous way.
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.
Today much of what we call education is merely knowledge gathering and remembering. Problem solving and thinking, never strong parts of our educational system, have been downgraded in all but a few scientific subjects.
We want kids to think that they can think about science. They don't need to just play soccer.
We have to see conflict as thinking and then get really good at it.
Games have to be relevant intellectually.
It's art that's taught me to think and to write.
It's good to make your brain work more than your body.
Intelligence is not to be confused with intelligence.
Most people can't think, most of the remainder won't think, and the small fraction who do think mostly can't do it very well.
Your brain, like your tongue, is a muscle. Practicing thinking by yourself really helps develop your brain, which you need throughout your day. I like to practice my thinking in a darkened room, alone.
It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.
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.
Too often, I think, children are required to write before they have anything to say. Teach them to think and read and talk without self-repression, and they will write because they cannot help it.
