Linear thought processes that dominate educational systems now can actually retard learning for brains developed through game and web-surfing processes on the computer. Peter Moore, Inferential Focus Briefing (September 30, 1997)
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You can't expect to have islands of academic excellence in a sea of community indifference. Ernest Boyer, Author, The Basic School
Are our schools places that encourage reflection? Do young minds formulate hypotheses that link a study of history with the issues of global warming or economic instability? Because that is what the world will need. Powerful, connected thinking. If not, we will have failed disastrously. John Abbott
Within the community at large there are an ever-increasing number of early retired people who are fit and strong and have many professional skills. At the moment they are largely wasted in terms of helping young people's learning... These people need to be recruited to work with young people. John Abbott, Terence Ryan
The statistical evidence is that the best predictor of the performance of a community's schools, the best predictor of math scores and science scores, for example, is the social capital in that community... And by that I simply mean the number of people who know one another's first name, the number of people who take part in community organizations, the level of trust and reciprocity in the community. Robert Putnam, author of the book "Bowling Alone"
The world of the future…will demand capacities that until now have been mere options. To meet this new world on its own terms, we should begin to cultivate these capacities now. Howard Gardner
Early life experiences have disproportionate importance in organizing the mature brain and are directly connected to children's optimal development. B.D. Perry, M.D., Incubated in Terror:
Neurodevelopmental Factors in the ‘Cycle of Violence’ ”Babies are like the raw material for a self. Each one comes with a genetic blueprint and a unique range of possibilities. There is a body programmed to develop in certain ways, but by no means (is it) on automatic programming. The baby is an interactive project, not a self-powered one. The baby human organism has various systems ready to go, but many more that are incomplete and will only develop in response to other human input. Sue Gerhard
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