Daniel Greenberg Quotes

The scientific community having made a rapid ascent from deep poverty to great affluence, from academe's cloisters to Washington's high councils, still tends to be a bit excitable - not unlike a nouveau riche in a fluctuating market.

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In traditional schools, you're penalized for making a mistake. But that won't work in the new information culture, in the digital world we live in today.

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Kids are finding out about the potential for discovery online from other sources many of them have computers at home, for instance, or their friends have them.

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Just the concept of personal freedom within a democracy, for instance, is a relatively young idea - only about 300 years old in this country.

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We've been doing this here since 1968, so we have been identified as an example of a free, democratic school, and many professors want to expose their students to our philosophy.

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I followed the rules, and I was a high achiever.

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Whenever culture has gone through a radical change, as ours has - from industrial age to information age - there are people who will deny that things have changed they resist it and refuse to change.

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I'm not too worried about that. I am a big believer in modeling.

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When kids play, they are working on imagining the kind of world we live in.

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Educators are still spending way too much time trying to control what kids learn, bending the content to their own purposes, hoping beyond hope to change - by using technology - but not change too much.

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I think people with open minds will observe the way we do things and realize that our goal is to have successful, happy, productive adults, and they will take our ideas and implement them elsewhere for their own children.

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Don't ask the barber whether you need a haircut.

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It should be done with the same degree of alacrity and nonchalance that you would display in authorizing a highly intelligent trained bear to remove your appendix.

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So, I see technology as a Trojan Horse It looks like a wonderful thing, but they are going to regret introducing it into the schools because it simply can't be controlled.

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And they understand that to be an effective member of a democracy, you have to accept responsibility.

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Our students get a good education here, and those who are highly motivated to go to college get accepted without the letters of recommendation.

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I would deliver lectures that got standing ovations, but later, in the tests and essays, it was clear to me that the students just didn't get it.

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But, neither of these educational scenarios worked for us, so when we started a family, we wanted a different school for our children. And the other founders felt the same way.

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I'll tell you what the real problem is These people are working under the assumption that they know better about what is good for kids, what kids need to learn to get ahead in this world.

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You can't make someone learn something - you really can't teach someone something - they have to want to learn it. And if they want to learn, they will.

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Technology will eventually destroy the way schools are run now.

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Quite a few, actually, are involved in education. They have had the same experience Hanna and I had when they started having their own kids, they didn't want them to have a poor educational experience they wanted them to enjoy school.

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One of the things that sets our kids apart is the fact that they have a great deal of experience with the democratic process here.

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If you watch young children play, you will notice that they create games, characters, situations, whole worlds in which they immerse themselves with intense concentration.

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But, if you observe children learning in their first few years of life, you can see that they can and do learn on their own - we leave them alone to crawl, walk, talk, and gain control over their bodies. It happens without much help from parents.

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