Kirsten Olson quotes
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“Like jilted and disappointed lovers, some of my students just want to be left alone.”
-- Kirsten OlsonSource : Kirsten Olson (2015). “Wounded by School: Recapturing the Joy in Learning and Standing Up to Old School Culture”, p.67, Teachers College Press
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“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
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“Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.”
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“You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety.”
Source : "Creating We : Change I-Thinking to We-Thinking and Build a Healthy, Thriving Organization". Book by Judith Glaser (p. 144), 2007.
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“Learning (Shakespeare's plays) ...in school was a bit of a bore.”
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“There are certain things I want to keep to me. I don't discuss my private life.”
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