People cannot learn by having information pressed into their brains. Knowledge has to be sucked into the brain, not pushed in. First, one must create a state of mind that craves knowledge, interest and wonder. You can teach only by creating an urge to know.
Victor Weisskopf: The Privilege of Being a Physicist W.H.Freeman
Roger von Oech;A Wack on the Side of the Head,© 1983-90.
Just as in a jigsaw puzzle, each piece - each student's part -- is essential for the completion and full understanding of the final product. If each student's part is essential, then each student is essential; and that is precisely what makes this strategy so effective.
Elliot Aronson, The Jigsaw Classroom,© 2000
The Tipping Point is an intellectual adventure story written with an infectious enthusiasm for the power and joy of new ideas. Most of all, it is a road map to change, with a profoundly hopeful message - that one imaginative person applying a well placed level can move the world.
Malcolm Gladwell © 2000, Little, Brown.
When I say we should make frequent use of maps, I mean actual maps. . . We should provide our children with a jigsaw map of the United States. Placing the states in their proper position with their own hands will give them a better sense of the geographical makeup of the country than just looking at a map of the traditional sort.....And we should give them jigsaw maps of other parts of the world.
Steve Allen "Dumpth": The Lost Art of Thinking. Copyright © 1998
Two characteristics of maps should be noticed. A map is not the territory it represents, but if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness. If the map could be ideally correct, it would include, in a reduced scale, the map of the map; the map of the map, of the map; and so on, endlessly......
Alfred
Korzybski, Science and Sanity, etc. Copyright © 1949.