In cooperative learning, you have a purposeful, meaningful, and authentic context in which children can sharpen their communicative skills. — Lilian Katz
Most great learning happens in groups. Collaboration is the stuff of growth. — Ken Robinson
A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher. — James S. Coleman
Learning by doing, peer-to-peer teaching, and computer simulation are all part of the same equation. — Nicholas Negroponte
We learn together in teams. This involves a shift from a spirit of advocacy to a spirit of enquiry. — Peter Senge
Wise teachers create an environment that encourages students to teach themselves — Leonard Roy Frank
Learning is more effective when it is an active rather than a passive process. — Kurt Lewin
In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn. — Phil Collins
People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them. — Allan Fromme
People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them. — Dr. Allan Fromme
Human learning presupposes a specific social nature and a process by which children grow into the intellectual life of those around them — Lev S. Vygotsky
When classes are small enough to allow individual student-teacher interaction, a minor miracle occurs: Teachers teach and students learn — LouAnne Johnson
Short Cooperative Learning Quotes
The higher the social class of other students the higher any given student's achievement. — James S. Coleman
Good teams incorporate teamwork into their culture, creating the building blocks for success. — Ted Sundquist
While we teach, we learn. — Seneca The Elder
By teaching others you will learn yourself. — G. I. Gurdjieff
The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery. — Mark Van Doren
Teams that play together beat those with superior players who play more as individuals. — Jack Ramsay
You teach me, I forget. You show me, I remember. You involve me, I understand. — E. O. Wilson
Education is not an affair of 'telling' and being told, but an active and constructive process. — John Dewey
Knowledge people and service people learn the most when they teach . — Peter Drucker
Cooperative Learning Image Quotes
Maturity is learning to walk away from people and situation that threaten your peace of mind, self respect, values, morals and self worth.
Cooperation Quotes
Cooperation and conflict are two sides of the same coin; both arise out of man's relationship with his fellows. The larger the group, the greater the possibility of development through cooperation, and the greater the possibility of conflict. — Julius Nyerere
Every human being is a raindrop. And when enough of the raindrops become clear and coherent they then become the power of the storm. — John Trudell
Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. — Alexander Graham Bell
Failure are part of life. If you don't fail, you don't learn. If you don't learn you'll never change.
The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team. — Phil Jackson
The most effective weapon against crime is cooperation... The efforts of all law enforcement agencies with the support and understanding of the American people. — J. Edgar Hoover
A team is not a group of people that work together. A team is a group of people that trust each other. — Simon Sinek
It is when you finally learn that your are all in your mind that your real life begins.
... let us unite, not in spite of our differences, but through them. For differences can never be wiped away, and life would be so much the poorer without them. Let all human races keep their own personalities, and yet come together, not in a uniformity that is dead, but in a unity that is living. — Rabindranath Tagore
There is but one mode by which man can possess in perpetuity all the happiness which his nature is capable of enjoying, - that is by the union and co-operation of all for the benefit of each. — Robert Owen
Competition is the law of the jungle, but cooperation is the law of civilization — Peter Kropotkin
Mafia is a process,not a thing. Mafia is a form of clan - cooperation to which it's individual members pledge lifelong loyalty....Friendship, connections, family ties, trust, loyalty, obedience - this was the glue that held us together. — Joseph Bonanno
One cannot be pessimistic about the West. This is the native home of hope. When it fully learns that cooperation, not rugged individualism, is the quality that most characterizes and preserves it, then it will have achieved itself and outlived its origins. Then it has a chance to create a society to match its scenery. — Wallace Stegner
We as a country have something to learn from Israel, especially in the areas of security and defense, and we will of course be doing that. — Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Forget the mistake. Remember the lesson.
I learned early on, having known the most handsome, successful, Gary Cooper, Clark Gable, Robert Taylor, don't ever spend too much time looking in the mirror. — Robert Stack
Collaboration operates through a process in which the successful intellectual achievements of one person arouse the intellectual passions and enthusiasms of others. — Alexander von Humboldt
Travel enables us to enrich our lives with new experiences, to enjoy and to be educated, to learn respect for foreign cultures, to establish friendships, and above all to contribute to international cooperation and peace throughout the world. — Jules Verne
Learn to say No without explaining yourself.
If two people have the same opinion, one is unnecessary. ... I don't want to talk, to communicate, with someone who agrees with me; I want to communicate with you because you see it differently. I value that difference. — Stephen Covey
Humankind is able to create new conditions, a new reality. We are not fated to swim forever among the realities that are here now. ... Everything that is worthwhile in human civilization has not only originated from but has been inspired by dreams, by imagination. — Pramoedya Ananta Toer
True happiness comes only through sharing in the trials and successes of other persons and of our community. Hence it is essential that any true conception of happiness contain the promise of full commitment to the life of the society. — Tsunesaburo Makiguchi
The mind that opens to a new idea never returns to its original size — Albert Einstein
In teaching, you do not want to COVER things, you want to UNCOVER them. The best way to get good ideas is to have lots of ideas. — Linus Pauling
For love of domination we must substitute equality; for love of victory we must substitute justice; for brutality we must substitute intelligence; for competition we must substitute cooperation. We must learn to think of the human race as one family. — Bertrand Russell
Cooperative living can develop only as individual persons become able to see their own weaknesses and strengths as well as the weaknesses and strengthen of others. — Tsunesaburo Makiguchi
In both cooperative learning and project work, the teacher encourages children to talk to one another. This helps them pay attention to each other's efforts and ideas. Children take to these kinds of exchanges very readily, but the teacher really needs to encourage this interaction. — Lilian Katz
I did not succeed in everything I did. And even where it did seem I was succeeding it was not always the case. The human heart has a million facets. — Pramoedya Ananta Toer
The best answer to the question, 'What is the most effective method of teaching?' is that it depends on the goal, the student, the content, and the teacher. But the next best answer is, 'Students teaching other students.' — Wilbert J. McKeachie
The truth of the matter is that about 99 percent of teaching is making the students feel interestedin the material. Then the other 1 percent has to do with your methods. And that's not just true of languages. It's true of every subject. — Noam Chomsky
Change is inevitable in life. You can either resist it and potentially get run over by it, or you can choose to cooperate with it, adapt to it, and learn how to benefit from it. When you embrace change you will begin to see it as an opportunity for growth. — Jack Canfield
a man there was, though some did count him mad, the more he cast away the more he had. — John Bunyan
Our country as a whole, no less than the Hastings College of Law, values tolerance, cooperation, learning, and the amicable resolution of conflicts. But we seek to achieve those goals through "[a] confident pluralism that conduces to civil peace and advances democratic consensus-building," not by abridging First Amendment rights. — Samuel Alito
You have to be honest, have integrity, be able to cooperate and get along with other people. Sigma Chi is a great place to learn that and that's why it's a great thing to join this fraternity. — Jim Palmer
We must be willing to learn the lesson that cooperation may imply compromise, but if it brings a world advance it is a gain for each individual nation. — Eleanor Roosevelt
Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration — James D. Watson
My father wanted to instill the work ethic. And, because he knew if you don't learn to work to be more productive to improve your efficiency, to cooperate with other people at an early age, you may never learn those habits. — Charles Koch
Almost every evening, either I went to [Georges] Braque's studio or Braque came to mine. Each of us had to see what the other had done during the day. We criticized each other's work. A canvas wasn't finished unless both of us felt it was. — Pablo Picasso
[T]he schools, through reliance upon the spur of competition and the bestowing of special honors and prizes, only build up and strengthen the disposition that makes an individual when he leaves school employ his special talents and superior skill to outwit his fellow without respect for the welfare of others — John Dewey
In the eighty or ninety years I have given to this subject, trying to trace out the meanderings of their twisty little minds, the only thing that I have learned for certain about women is that when a gal is gonna, she's gonna. All a man can do is cooperate with the inevitable. — Robert A. Heinlein
For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind? — Maria Montessori
When three persons work together, each can be the teacher in some aspects — Confucius
Cooperativeness is not so much learning how to get along with others as taking the kinks out of ourselves, so that others can get along with us. — Thomas S. Monson
Zbigniew Brzezinski, you know, who was one of the authors of U.S. dominance, he's changed his mind, you know, and he's saying now we've got to learn to cooperate with other world powers. We are not the bully in the schoolyard here.We've got to deal with them. And that's my feeling. — Jill Stein
...I think there's only one [thing] that anybody teaches, and this is character. And I think that whether you are teaching history, math, or biology, or music, what you are really doing is, you are helping to shape the character of that person who is your student... Music is such a wonderful teaching tool, because while you are developing musical skills, that student can learn a lot about discipline [and] cooperation. — Rich Mullins
We cannot change others, but when we change ourselves, we may end up changing the world. — Melody Beattie
As the workplace becomes more specialized, from offices to medical centers to factories, teams of people must accomplish their work by collaborating with each other. In my work in filmmaking, we need talented individuals with technical skills, but their abilities to communicate and work with others are just as valuable. — George Lucas
There is no greater egoism than that of learning when it is treated simply as a mark of personal distinction to be held and cherished for its own sake. ... [K]knowledge is a possession held in trust for the furthering of the well-being of all — John Dewey
Every good teaching may still end up producing evil bandits who have no principles whatsoever, an outcome even more likely when the teacher is also a bandit. — Pramoedya Ananta Toer
I learned some valuable lessons about the legislative process, the importance of bipartisan cooperation and the wisdom of taking small steps to get a big job done. — Hillary Clinton
Scientists are usually nice, organized, logical people who are very cooperative. I always learn a lot of science while shooting science stories and it helps to be able to speak intelligently to a subject about his or her field of work, i.e., do your homework before the photography. — Peter Menzel
I learned that unless you start working, if you're frozen out of work, you will never learn the habits, the discipline, the values of cooperation and improvement unless you get a job, and that's what statistic show. It's, unless you get a job and keep it, you will not get out of poverty. If you do, you have a very good chance of working out of poverty. — Charles Koch
Excessive competitiveness, anxiety, hostility, suspiciousness, all originate in the nursery years. That is why, if we want a world of peace and not violence, love and not hate, cooperation and not murder, justice and not selfishness, we have to learn how to make childhood more happy. No nobler task could be pursued by our generation. — Joshua L. Liebman
There is really nothing that can be done except by an individual. Only individuals can learn. Only individuals can think creatively. Only individuals can cooperate. Only individuals can combat statism. — Leonard Read
Creativity is a force moving through us, and only through practice do we learn how to cooperate with it. The 'process' is like a muscle. It needs to be exercised in order to function effortlessly. — Shaun McNiff
When you look at the global situation, if America learned to be one of the many countries in the world and to find its way to cooperate with people and bring a global peace that could bring great prosperity to this globe, there is still a chance of that, and that's a big lesson from history. We are not paying attention to that. — Oliver Stone
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