It makes little sense to spend a month teaching decimal fractions to fourth-grade pupils when they can be taught in a week, and be...tter understood and retained, by sixth-grade students. Child-centeredness does not mean lack of rigor or standards; it does mean finding the best match between curricula and children's developing interests and abilities.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Despite many assertions to the contrary, the brain is not "like a computer." Yes, the brain has many electrical connections, just ...like a computer. But at each point in a computer only a binary decision can be made--yes or no, on or off, 0 or 1. Each point in the brain, each brain cell, contains all the genetic information necessary to reproduce the entire organism. A brain cell is not a switch. It has a memory; it can be subtle. Each brain cell is like a computer. The brain is like a hundred billion computers all connected together. It is impossible to understand because it is too complex. As Emerson Pugh wrote, "If the human brain was so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When committees gather, each member is necessarily an actor, uncontrollably acting out the part of himself, reading the lines that... identify him, asserting his identity.... We are designed, coded, it seems, to place the highest priority on being individuals, and we must do this first, at whatever cost, even if it means disability for the group.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In matter of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much.... The French are with equal advantage content, So we clap on Dutch bottoms just twenty per cent.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »