The normal curve is a distribution most appropriate to chance and random activity. Education is a purposeful activity and we seek to have students le…

- Benjamin Bloom

We need to be much clearer about what we do and do not know so that we don't continually confuse the two. If I could have one wish for education, it…

- Benjamin Bloom

What any person in the world can learn, almost all persons can learn if provided with appropriate prior and current conditions of learning.

- Benjamin Bloom

Education must be increasingly concerned about the fullest development of all children and youth, and it will be the responsibility of the schools to…

- Benjamin Bloom

Creativity follows mastery, so mastery of skills is the first priority for young talent.

- Benjamin Bloom

After forty years of intensive research on school learning in the United States as well as abroad, my major conclusion is: What any person in the wor…

- Benjamin Bloom

...a student attains 'higher order thinking' when he no longer believes in right or wrong". "A large part of what we call good teaching is a teacher…

- Benjamin Bloom