David Perkins famous quotes

In order for the brain to comprehend the heart must first listen.
-- David Perkins

#Teaching #Learning #Heart

The metaphor ( coaching) with sports is meant quite seriously... the coach stands back , observes the performance, and provides guidance. The coach applauds strengths, identifies weaknesses, points up principles, offers guiding and often inspiring imagery, and decides what kind of practice to emphasize.
-- David Perkins

#Sports #Teaching #Learning

Education ultimately depends on what happens in classrooms... between teachers and learners. That is fundamental.'... 'I hope that teachers will discover the optimism and direction to combat the energy - draining pressures and frustrations of most educational settings.
-- David Perkins

#Teacher #Educational #Teaching

Teachers and administrators sleepwalk through their responsibilities, dulled and discouraged by the endless pressures and problems.
-- David Perkins

#Teacher #Teaching #Learning

We know at lot more now than the 'last time around the 1960s and 1970s - about how to work for smart schools... ' 'The smart school finds it's foundation in a rich and evolving set of principles about human thinking and learning.'
-- David Perkins

#Smart #Teaching #Learning

One barrier... is the impoverishment of classroom language, the failure to cultivate a common vocabulary about inquiry, explanation, argument and problem solving.
-- David Perkins

#Teaching #Learning #Vocabulary

Sometimes the Good is the enemy of the BEST!
-- David Perkins

#Enemy #Sometimes

Learning is a consequence of thinking.
-- David Perkins

#Thinking #Consequence

Our thinking tends to be hazy, hasty, narrow, or sprawling-causal terms for impulsive. Just like anything else, thinking skills require upkeep. If they aren't nourished, they'll fade away.
-- David Perkins

#Thinking #Skills #Upkeep

Fear of knowing is very deeply a fear of doing.

my opinion is that we have, in the person of Da Free John, a Spiritual Master and religious genius of the ultimate degree. I assure you I do not mean that lightly. I am not tossing out high-powered phrases to 'hype' the works of Da Free John. I am simply offering to you my own considered opinion: Da Free John's teaching is, I believe, unsurpassed by that of any other spiritual Hero, of any period, of any place, of any time, of any persuasion.

A spiritual teaching is a finger pointing toward Reality; it is not Reality itself. To be in a true and mature relationship with a spiritual teaching requires you to apply it, not simply believe in it.

Silence is the only teaching and the only teacher that is there all the time.

Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a defenseless and unerudite public.

Learning (Shakespeare's plays) ...in school was a bit of a bore.

Because I liked you better Than suits a man to say, It irked you, and I promised I'd throw the thought away. To put the world between us We parted stiff and dry: 'Farewell,' said you, 'forget me.' 'Fare well, I will,' said I. If e'er, where clover whitens The dead man's knoll, you pass, And no tall flower to meet you Starts in the trefoiled grass, Halt by the headstone shading The heart you have not stirred, And say the lad that loved you Was one that kept his word.

When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, `Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies But keep your fancy free.' But I was one-and-twenty No use to talk to me. When I was one-and-twenty I heard him say again, `The heart out of the bosom Was never given in vain; 'Tis paid with sighs a plenty And sold for endless rue.' And I am two-and-twenty And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.

But men at whiles are sober And think by fits and starts. And if they think, they fasten Their hands upon their hearts

Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free.