"The brain is highly structured, but it is also extremely flexible. It's not a blank slate, but it isn't written in stone, either."

-- Alison Gopnik

#Brain Quotes #Stones Quotes #Blank Quotes

“The U.S. has spent billions of dollars on educating and supporting teachers or developing curricula but no resources are applied to 'improving the brain' that a student brings to the classroom.”

Source : "Naveen Jain on Rethinking Education: Can We Use Neuroscience to Create Better Learners". www.forbes.com. June 16, 2011.
“It's tricky when you're doing a recording, because the only weapon you have is your voice and the delivery of that voice. You don't have a gesture or a facial expression, there are no costumes or set pieces. Everything needs to be present in the voice.”
“Of all joyful, smiling, ever-laughing experiences, there are none like those which spring from true religion.”
“A skirt is no obstacle to extemperaneous sex, but it is physically impossible to make love to a girl while she is wearing trousers.”

Source : Helen Lawrenson (1968). “Latins are Still Lousy Lovers”
“Why is it that the most important stuff to listen to is almost always the stuff we don't want to hear?”
“I love nerdy, cute, quirky boys who don't take themselves too seriously.”
“It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States.”
“In those days I was terrible at athletics and never made a team, but quite easily led my class in academics.”

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