David Edward Goldberg > Quotes

“Our initial thinking about the keys to educational reform was wrong. The variables were deeply emotional and cultural.”
― David Edward Goldberg, A Whole New Engineer: The Coming Revolution in Engineering Education

“The emotional transformation of engineering education…is based on a philosophy of education that is grounded in the real world and in the lives of the students we serve…In the right atmosphere, the change flows organically from the students themselves.”
― David Edward Goldberg, A Whole New Engineer: The Coming Revolution in Engineering Education

“[Olin] formed a culture of student ownership and engagement…students are not consumers but rather are partners in their education.”
― David Edward Goldberg, A Whole New Engineer: The Coming Revolution in Engineering Education

“The emotional transformation of engineering education isn’t magical thinking. Nor is it a vague abstraction or a series of touchy-feely practices. It is based on a philosophy of education that is grounded in the real world and in the lives of the students we serve. It’s available to everyone. It isn’t expensive. It can’t be accomplished in the old paradigm under the old assumptions about how education change happens, but in the right atmosphere, the change flows organically from the students themselves. That atmosphere requires systematic language change, culture change, and personal change by students, faculty, and all the stakeholders in education.”
― David Edward Goldberg, A Whole New Engineer: The Coming Revolution in Engineering Education

“Change flows organically from the students themselves.”
― David Edward Goldberg, A Whole New Engineer: The Coming Revolution in Engineering Education

“We came to recognize that our initial thinking about the keys to educational reform was wrong. The key variables weren’t pedagogical. They weren’t financial. They weren’t curricular. They weren’t research. They weren’t any of the usual things we’ve always talked about as the engines of change. The variables were deeply emotional and cultural.”
― David Edward Goldberg, A Whole New Engineer: The Coming Revolution in Engineering Education

“The emotional transformation of engineering education…is grounded in the real world and in the lives of the students we serve.”
― David Edward Goldberg, A Whole New Engineer: The Coming Revolution in Engineering Education

“Genetic algorithms (GAs) are defined as search procedures based on the mechanics of natural selection and genetics, and we think we know what innovation is - at least in some sort of qualitative way - but what does one have to do with the other?”
― David Edward Goldberg, The Design of Innovation: Lessons from and for Competent Genetic Algorithms