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“Maybe what really matters is technology’s power to enable students to reach a vast and real audience that they could never dream of in the traditional classroom.”
― Yong Zhao, Never Send a Human to Do a Machine's Job: Correcting the Top 5 EdTech Mistakes

“Technology should be used to create a learning space—a breathable space that nurtures possibilities rather than merely fulfilling predictions.”
― Yong Zhao, Never Send a Human to Do a Machine's Job: Correcting the Top 5 EdTech Mistakes

“education is not simply preparation for life; education is life itself.”
― Yong Zhao, Never Send a Human to Do a Machine's Job: Correcting the Top 5 EdTech Mistakes

“A more fitting metaphor of the traditional pedagogy is managing a factory of mechanical workers, where the teacher is the manager and students the workers. The teacher gives instructions and assigns tasks to students each day. The students work as hard as possible to finish the tasks. At the end of the work period, the students are rewarded or punished based on how well they have complied with the instructions and completed the tasks.”
― Yong Zhao, Never Send a Human to Do a Machine's Job: Correcting the Top 5 EdTech Mistakes

“It is apparent that the traditional teacher-centered pedagogy needs to be changed. It is also more feasible than ever before to make the change. The change is more than piecemeal tinkering. It is a paradigm shift, a complete rethinking of how teaching and learning are carried out”
― Yong Zhao, Never Send a Human to Do a Machine's Job: Correcting the Top 5 EdTech Mistakes

“The prisoner's dilemma”
― Yong Zhao, Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Dragon?: Why China Has the Best (and Worst) Education System in the World

“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another. —Anatole France”
― Yong Zhao, World Class Learners: Educating Creative and Entrepreneurial Students

“What is the relationship between technology (e.g., TV, computers, the Internet, tablets) and teachers?”
― Yong Zhao, Never Send a Human to Do a Machine's Job: Correcting the Top 5 EdTech Mistakes

“First, national standards and national curriculum, enforced by high-stakes testing, can at best teach students what is prescribed by the curriculum and expected by the standards. This system fails to expose students to content and skills in other areas. As a result, students talented in other areas never have the opportunity to discover those talents. Students with broader interests are discouraged, not rewarded. The system results in a population with similar skills in a narrow spectrum of talents. But especially in today's society, innovation and creativity are needed in many areas, some as yet undiscovered. Innovation and creativity come from cross-fertilization across different disciplines. A narrow educational experience hardly provides children opportunities to examine an issue from multiple disciplines.”
― Yong Zhao, Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Dragon?: Why China Has the Best (and Worst) Education System in the World

“Thus for those in developed countries to be globally competitive, they must offer something qualitatively different, that is, something that cannot be obtained at a lower cost in developing countries.”
― Yong Zhao, World Class Learners: Educating Creative and Entrepreneurial Students

“It is precisely the lack of explicit objectives determined by external parties that fascinates children.”
― Yong Zhao, Never Send a Human to Do a Machine's Job: Correcting the Top 5 EdTech Mistakes

“Confidence, resilience, grit, mind-set, personality traits, social skills, and motivation have been found to be at least as important as cognitive skills in the workplace.”
― Yong Zhao, Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Dragon?: Why China Has the Best (and Worst) Education System in the World

“Despite the challenges, Coca-Cola succeeded in the end. China has become Coca-Cola's third largest market in the world, after the United States and Mexico. It has invested over $5 billion in China. More important, Coca-Cola has blazed a trail for other foreign companies—Pepsi, KFC, McDonald's, Coors, Budweiser, IBM, Apple, Dell, Procter & Gamble, Walmart, Sheraton,”
― Yong Zhao, Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Dragon?: Why China Has the Best (and Worst) Education System in the World

“respect of students’ interests, freedom to explore, faith in students’ ability to achieve something meaningful (rather than underestimation of their ability).”
― Yong Zhao, Never Send a Human to Do a Machine's Job: Correcting the Top 5 EdTech Mistakes

“Sinophilism swiftly developed into Sinomania.”
― Yong Zhao, Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Dragon?: Why China Has the Best (and Worst) Education System in the World

“we need an education that enhances individual strengths, follows children's passions,”
― Yong Zhao, Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Dragon?: Why China Has the Best (and Worst) Education System in the World

“THE NEED FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP Youth unemployment has become an urgent challenge facing the global society. In 2011, nearly 75 million youth aged 15 to 24 were unemployed worldwide. The majority of the world’s youth (87%) living in developing countries “are often underemployed and working in the informal economy under poor conditions,” according to the 2012 The World Youth Report of the United Nations (United”
― Yong Zhao, World Class Learners: Educating Creative and Entrepreneurial Students

“FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP Youth unemployment has become an urgent challenge facing the global society. In 2011, nearly 75 million youth aged 15 to 24 were unemployed worldwide. The majority of the world’s youth (87%) living in developing countries “are often underemployed and working in the informal economy under poor conditions,” according to the 2012 The World Youth Report of the United Nations (United”
― Yong Zhao, World Class Learners: Educating Creative and Entrepreneurial Students