David Perkins quotes
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“In order for the brain to comprehend the heart must first listen.”
-- David PerkinsSource : David Perkins (2008). “Smart Schools: From Training Memories to Educating Minds”, p.114, Simon and Schuster
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“The metaphor ( coaching) with sports is meant quite seriously... the coach stands back , observes the performance, and provides guidance. The coach applauds strengths, identifies weaknesses, points up principles, offers guiding and often inspiring imagery, and decides what kind of practice to emphasize.”
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“Education ultimately depends on what happens in classrooms... between teachers and learners. That is fundamental.'... 'I hope that teachers will discover the optimism and direction to combat the energy - draining pressures and frustrations of most educational settings.”
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“Teachers and administrators sleepwalk through their responsibilities, dulled and discouraged by the endless pressures and problems.”
-- David PerkinsSource : David Perkins (2008). “Smart Schools: From Training Memories to Educating Minds”, p.171, Simon and Schuster
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“We know at lot more now than the 'last time around the 1960s and 1970s - about how to work for smart schools... ' 'The smart school finds it's foundation in a rich and evolving set of principles about human thinking and learning.'”
-- David PerkinsSource : David Perkins (2008). “Smart Schools: From Training Memories to Educating Minds”, p.229, Simon and Schuster
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“One barrier... is the impoverishment of classroom language, the failure to cultivate a common vocabulary about inquiry, explanation, argument and problem solving.”
-- David PerkinsSource : David Perkins (2008). “Smart Schools: From Training Memories to Educating Minds”, p.143, Simon and Schuster
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“Sometimes the Good is the enemy of the BEST!”
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“Learning is a consequence of thinking.”
-- David PerkinsSource : David Perkins (2008). “Smart Schools: From Training Memories to Educating Minds”, p.185, Simon and Schuster
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“Our thinking tends to be hazy, hasty, narrow, or sprawling-causal terms for impulsive. Just like anything else, thinking skills require upkeep. If they aren't nourished, they'll fade away.”
-- David Perkins