Cognitive skills Quotes

"Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking."

"The human mind is our fundamental resource"

"The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling"

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."

"Intelligence is the ability to find and solve problems and create products of value in one's own culture"

"Learning is more than the acquisition of the ability to think; it is the acquisition of many specialized abilities for thinking about a variety of things"