Humans are not ideally set up to understand logic; they are ideally set up to understand stories..

Learning is about failure and recovery from failure..

Interest is a terrible thing to waste..

Learning happens when someone wants to learn, not when someone wants to teach..

Education in a deepest sense has always been about doing rather than about knowing..

In the end all we have...are stories and methods of finding and using those stories..

Questions are the important thing, answers are less important. Learning to ask a good question is the heart of intelligence. Learning the answer-well….

Learning to explain phenomena such that one continues to be fascinated by the failure of one's explanations creates a continuing cycle of thinking, t….

We can tell people abstract rules of thumb which we have derived from prior experiences, but it is very difficult for other people to learn from thes….

The language of the culture also reflects the stories of the culture. One word or simple phrasal labels often describe the story adequately enough in….

There is one very good reason to learn programming, but it has nothing to do with preparing for high-tech careers or with making sure one is computer….

Schools in the future will be judged less because of the credentials that they bestow, and more because of the experiences that they offer..

Everything they teach in school is oriented so that they can test it to show that you know it, instead of taking note of the obvious, which is that p….