Kathy Hirsh-Pasek Quotes

• Collaboration is everything from getting along with others to controlling your impulses so you can get along and not kick someone else off the swing. It's building a community and experiencing diversity and culture. Everything we do, in the classroom or at home, has to be built on that foundation.

  Kathy Hirsh-Pasek

  Home, Diversity, Community

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• What we do with little kids today will matter in 20 years. If you don't get it right, you will have an unlivable environment. That's the crisis I see.

  Kathy Hirsh-Pasek

  Kids, Today, Environment

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• Creative innovation requires knowing something. You can't just be a monkey throwing paint on a canvas. It's the 10,000-hour rule: You need to know something well enough to make something new.

  Kathy Hirsh-Pasek

  Creative, Innovation, Canvas

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• We're training kids to do what computers do, which is spit back facts. And computers are always going to be better than human beings at that. But what they're not going to be better at is being social, navigating relationships, being citizens in a community. So we need to change the whole definition of what success in school, and out of school, means.

  Kathy Hirsh-Pasek

  School, Mean, Kids

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• Content is built on communication. You can't learn anything if you haven't learned how to understand language, or to read.

  Kathy Hirsh-Pasek

  Communication, Language

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• If Rip Van Winkle came back, there's only one institution he would recognize: "Oh! That's a school. Kids are still sitting in rows, still listening to the font of wisdom at the front of the classroom."

  Kathy Hirsh-Pasek

  Rip, School, Kids

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• Critical thinking relies on content, because you can't navigate masses of information if you have nothing to navigate to.

  Kathy Hirsh-Pasek

  Thinking, Critical Thinking, Rely

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• Learning isn't just K-12. It starts prenatally. If you get a bead on what your children are and aren't being exposed to at school, that will suggest the kinds of experiences you want your children to have outside of school.

  Kathy Hirsh-Pasek

  Children, School, Kind

  Source: www.wbur.org

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