The Day We Stop Playing

There Are Only Two Places In The World Where Time Takes Precedence Over The Job To Be Done. School And Prison.

Every Single Major Push In Education Has Made It Worse And Right Now It's Really Bad Because Everything We've Done Is De-humanizing Education. It's Destroying The Possibility Of The Teacher And The Student Having A Warm, Friendly, Intellectual Relationship.

To Focus On Discipline Is To Ignore The Real Problem: We Will Never Be Able To Get Students (or Anyone Else) To Be In Good Order If, Day After Day, We Try To Force Them To Do What They Do Not Find Satisfying.

If We Had In This Room A Hundred Teachers, Good Teachers From Good Schools, And Asked Them To Define The Word Education, There Would Be Very Little General Agreement.

We Learn... 10% Of What We Read 20% Of What We Hear 30% Of What We See 50% Of What We Both Hear And See 70% Of What Is Discussed 80% Of What We Experience Personally 95% Of What We Teach To Someone Else