Carlos Hansen > Carlos's Quotes

“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.”
― John Dewey

“Reality is broken. Game designers can fix it.”
― Jane McGonigal

“We only think when confronted with a problem.”
― John Dewey

“We do not learn from experience... we learn from reflecting on experience.”
― John Dewey

“The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.”
― John Dewey

“A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.”
― Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless

“When you strip away the genre differences and the technological complexities, all games share four defining traits: a goal, rules, a feedback system, and voluntary participation.”
― Jane McGonigal, Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World

“Nesse’s research focuses on the evolutionary origins of depression. Why does depression exist at all? If it’s stayed in our gene pool for so long, he argues, there must be some evolutionary benefit. Nesse believes that depression may be an adaptive mechanism meant to prevent us from falling victim to blind optimism—and squandering resources on the wrong goals.11 It’s to our evolutionary advantage not to waste time and energy on goals we can’t realistically achieve. And so when we have no clear way to make productive progress, our neurological systems default to a state of low energy...”
― Jane McGonigal

“No object, no event, no outcome or life circumstance can deliver real happiness to us. We have to make our own happiness—by working hard at activities that provide their own reward.15”
― Jane McGonigal

“The real world just doesn’t offer up as easily the carefully designed pleasures, the thrilling challenges, and the powerful social bonding afforded by virtual environments. Reality doesn’t motivate us as effectively. Reality isn’t engineered to maximize our potential. Reality wasn’t designed from the bottom up to make us happy.”
― Jane McGonigal

“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
― Carl R. Rogers, On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy

“The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.”
― Carl R. Rogers

“there is direction but there is no destination”
― Carl R. Rogers

“Growth occurs when individuals confront problems, struggle to master them, and through that struggle develop new aspects of their skills, capacities, views about life.”
― Carl Rogers

“You know that I don't believe that anyone has ever taught anything to anyone. I question that efficacy of teaching. The only thing that I know is that anyone who wants to learn will learn. And maybe a teacher is a facilitator, a person who puts things down and shows people how exciting and wonderful it is and asks them to eat.”
― Carl R. Rogers

“Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.”
― John Dewey

“Hunger not to have, but to be”
― John Dewey

“A problem well put is half solved.”
― John Dewey

“Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.”
― john dewey

“To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.”
― John Dewey

“Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.”
― John Dewey

“Education is a social process; education is growth; education is not preparation for life but is life itself.”
― John Dewey

“The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.”
― John Dewey

“To me faith means not worrying”
― John Dewey

“Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.”
― John Dewey, Democracy and Education

“If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.”
― John Dewey

“The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.”
― John Dewey

“Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.”
― John Dewey Polt

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein