It is not the horse that draws the cart, but the oats. And yet we always speak of the horse.
The mind is furnished with a set of instincts which seek out certain kinds of phenomena and are angered by their absence and impatient of delay in their arrival. It is the absence of the phenomena, not their presence, which is the true cause of the intellectual excitement we feel.
A man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for? The appetite grows with eating; the more one has, the more one wants.
When people say they want to do something but are too busy, there is almost always something else standing in their way. This is the root of procrastination. At its core, you are waiting for some external force to change—like your endless to-do list magically disappearing, or your calendar suddenly opening up—rather than making a change in your actions, which is hard.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled. And the worst thing you can do to a talented person is to prevent them from starting fires.
The mind of man is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate 'apparent' ordinary people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people.
The mind is furnished with a set of instincts which seek out certain kinds of phenomena and are anxious until they find them. If the mind were a mere mirror, it might be pleasant for it to reflect the world, but it would have no motive to seek one kind of world rather than another.
He argues the traditional classroom was designed for a narrow slice of students and wastes everyone else's time. The fix isn't more money or better teachers; it's rebuilding from scratch around mastery, motivation, and AI.
The mind is furnished with a set of instincts which seek out certain kinds of phenomena and are satisfied by the presence of these phenomena, just as the nutritive instincts are satisfied by food.
The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate 'apparently ordinary' people to unusual effort over many years.
The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate 'apparently ordinary' people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people.
a small group of sufficiently talented and motivated people can change how the future plays out.
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