Steven Pinker Quotes

The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to be learned.

Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain.

From the time I started school, it was clear to everyone that I wasn't learning at the same pace as other kids.

Reading requires the brain to rearrange its original parts to learn something new.

I'm very slow. I'm a slow learner.

Education had been easy. Learning things had been harder.

It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.

I had learnt from experience that many false opinions may be exchanged for true ones, without in the least altering the habits of mind of which false opinions are made.

There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason.

Education is not a product: mark, diploma, job, money-in that order; it is a process, a never-ending one.

One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it

All practical teachers know that education is a patient process of mastery of details, minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day.

It may be an information age, but... It takes more work to earn more money to be overwhelmed by more information that does not equal knowledge or wisdom.

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view, The learn'd reflect on what before they knew.

Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less. He may learn that what he thought was true was not true. By the elimination of a false premise, his basic capital wealth which in his given lifetime is disembarrassed of further preoccupation with considerations of how to employ a worthless time-consuming hypothesis. Freeing his time for its more effective exploratory investment is to give man increased wealth.

The effort of learning. It's the same when you approach any new skill or technique, from a dance step to driving a car. The effort of learning stops you, at first, from doing it well.

Learn it all, then forget it all.

At the age of 18 I don't think that I thought very differently than I did at the age of 25. I think we instinctively have the knowledge and adapt the knowledge we need.

I just barely got through school. The problem was a learning disability, at a time when there was no where to get help.

In general it may be said that demand is quite as necessary to the increase of capital as the increase of capital is to demand.

You want to learn about what's already in their heads. You want to avoid putting things there.

It requires a strong mind to bear up against several languages. Some persons have learnt so many, that they have ceased to think in any one.

Etymologically, the word education means just a process of leading or bringing up.