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

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

- 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

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

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…

- Roger Schank

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

- 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

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