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…

- Roger Schank

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

- Roger Schank

Learning is about failure and recovery from failure.

- Roger Schank

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…

- Roger Schank

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

- Roger Schank

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…

- Roger Schank

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

- Roger Schank

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…

- Roger Schank

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

- Roger Schank