A weekday edition of The New York Times contains more information than the average person was likely to come across in a lifetime in seventeenth-century England

Education is to learning as tour groups are to adventure.

A weekday edition of The New York Times contains more information than the average person was likely to come across in a lifetime in seventeenth-century England

The most essential prerequisite to understanding is to be able to admit when you don't understand something

Learning can be defined as the process of remembering what you are interested in.

My opening line to my students, and a recurring theme in my classes, was that the big design problem isn't designing a house for your parents or yourself, a museum, or a toaster, or a book, or whatever. The big design problem is designing your life. It's by the design of your life that you create the backboard off which you bounce all your thoughts and ideas and creativity. You have to decide what it is that you want to do each day.

We do not think in a linear, sequential way, yet every body of information that is given to us is given to us in a linear manner ... we are taught to communicate in a way that is actually constricting our ability to think.