“To think better, to think like the best humans, we are probably going to have to learn again to judge a person’s intelligence, not by the ability to recite facts, but by the good order or harmoniousness of his or her surroundings.”

Wendell Berry

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“The problem with praising kids for their innate intelligence—the ‘smart’ compliment—is that is misrepresents the neural reality of education. It encourages kids to avoid the most useful kind of learning activity, which is learning from mistakes. Unless you experience the unpleasant symptoms of being wrong, your brain will never revise its models. Before your neurons can succeed, they must repeatedly fail. There are no shortcuts for this painstaking process.”

Jonah Lehrer

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“Do you not see how necessary a World of Pains and troubles is to school an Intelligence and make it a soul?”

John Keats

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