"We're training kids to do what computers do, which is spit back facts. And computers are always going to be better than human beings at that. But what they're not going to be better at is being social, navigating relationships, being citizens in a community. So we need to change the whole definition of what success in school, and out of school, means."

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Kathy Hirsh-Pasek

#School Quotes #Mean Quotes #Kids Quotes

“My goal was never to be famous, but to be a consistently working actor.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“If you kept moving, you never had to mourn what you were leaving behind.”
“While at Cal Tech I talked a lot with Jon Mathews, then a junior faculty member; he taught me how to use the Institute's computer; we also went on hikes together.”
“I know I have a big, big head. Hats, a lot of times, do not fit me. What is the average head size? Maybe like 16 inches. From the center of my forehead around to other side might be a foot, give or take four inches.”
“Progress without the reasoned freedom to think and act is regression to slavery.”
“Muhammad Ali could take a very good punch. He was slick, he could move, he could hit, make you miss, good hand speed and combinations and one of the greatest fighters of all time in my opinion.”
“Attention is a little-noticed and underrated mental asset.”
“No matter how hard it gets, Iâ€™d rather be a soldier drowning in my own blood than a coward in my own piss”

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