Eric Jensen famous quotes

I loved learning, it was school I hated. I used to cut school to go learn something.
-- Eric Jensen

#Learning #School #Cutting

The systems they (the Arts) nourish, which include our integrated sensory, attentional, cognitive, emotional, and motor capacities, are, in fact, the driving forces behind all other learning.
-- Eric Jensen

#Art #Healing #Emotional

The most significant learning occurs when emotions are integrated with instruction because all body systems are united. The Arts are strongly linked to emotions, enhancing the likelihood that students will remember something.
-- Eric Jensen

#Art #Body #Students

There is no separation of mind and emotions; emotions, thinking, and learning are all linked.
-- Eric Jensen

#Thinking #Mind #Emotion

.....the research on the brain does not validate that we are singularly processing input or learning with a single sensory input.
-- Eric Jensen

#Brain #Doe #Research

We are social beings and our brains grow in a social environment.
-- Eric Jensen

#Brain #Environment #Social

We have discovered that exercise is strongly correlated with increased brain mass, better cognition, mood regulation, and new cell growth.
-- Eric Jensen

#Exercise #Cells #Brain

For many students, school is an obligation, not a joy and a privilege. This means you need to ‘sell’ the learning to them.
-- Eric Jensen

#Mean #School #Joy

From birth to the teenage years, the brain undergoes a fourfold increase in volume
-- Eric Jensen

#Teenage #Years #Brain

Fear of knowing is very deeply a fear of doing.

Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.

One must always regret that law of growth which renders necessary that kittens should spoil into demure cats, and bright, joyous school-girls develop into the spiritless, crystallized beings denominated young ladies.

The process of my transformation came to a head with my discovery of St. Francis of Assisi during a pilgrimage I went on with a scout troop from my school.

People have their own opinions but sometimes with the media things get chopped up and cut around to make stories out of it.

I am for liberty of conscience in its noblest, broadest, and highest sense. But I cannot give liberty of conscience to the pope and his followers, the papists, so long as they tell me, through all their councils, theologians, and canon laws that their conscience orders them to burn my wife, strangle my children, and cut my throat when they find their opportunity.

In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.

Every age cuts and pastes history to suit its own purposes; art always has an ax to grind.

You can always count on the New York Times to cut your legs off.

Energy has to be fed from a source. If you don't feed the source, it dissipates entirely.Same is true of liking a boy. If you cut off the thoughts, if you stop pinning, you're free to find a boy who is attainable.