Jen Killpack

“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

“But it's not the pressure of data that gives rise to the understanding. It's, on the contrary, the child's own struggle to make sense of the data”
― Eleanor Duckworth

“If you are ready to leave father and mother, and brother and sister, and wife and child and friends, and never see them again—if you have paid your debts, and made your will, and settled all your affairs, and are a free man—then you are ready for a walk.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walking

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