Jen Killpack

“Sometimes it is the people no one can imagine anything of who do the things no one can imagine.”
― Alan Turing

“Intelligence tests require that certain things be figured out, but the figuring out doesn’t count. If the figuring out leads to the right answer, then of course the right answer counts. But no tester will ever know and no score will ever reveal whether the right answer was a triumph of imagination and intellectual daring, or whether the child knew the right answer all along. In addition, the more time the child spends on figuring things out on the test, the less time there is for filling in the right answers; that is, the more you actually think to get the right answers on an intelligence test, the less intelligent the score will look.”
― Eleanor Duckworth

“Sometimes it is the people who no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.”
― Alan Turing

“Teachers are often, and understandably, impatient for their students to develop clear and adequate ideas. But putting ideas in relation to each other isn't a simple job. It's confusing and this confusion does take time. All of us need time for our confusion if we are to build the breadth and depth that give significance to our knowledge.”
― Eleanor Duckworth, The Having of Wonderful Ideas" and Other Essays on Teaching and Learning