Kirsten Olson quotes

Like jilted and disappointed lovers, some of my students just want to be left alone.
-- Kirsten Olson

#Learning #Want #Jilted

In fact, I think that our society expects schools to get students to the point where they do things only for outside rewards. People who perform tasks for their internal reasons are hard to control. Now, I don't think teachers get up in the morning and say to themselves, 'I', going to go to school today and take away all those young people's internal motivations' ...but that's exactly what often happens.
-- Kirsten Olson

#Teacher #Morning #Motivation

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.

You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety.

Any approach to scientific inference which seeks to legitimize it and answer in reponse to complex uncertainty is, for me, a totalitarian parody of a would-be rational learning process.

Everyone makes mistakes. The wise are not people who never make mistakes, but those who forgive themselves and learn from their mistakes.

We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business. And then we grow up and learn to blend our innate abilities with the rules or principles we have learned.

Learning (Shakespeare's plays) ...in school was a bit of a bore.

It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical.

I want to go beyond the restrictions of language, religion and caste, and music is the only thing that allows me to do that.

There are certain things I want to keep to me. I don't discuss my private life.

You have to love what you do to want to do it everyday.