Constructionism Theory Quotes & Sayings

English is a beautiful language, a remarkably precise language with a million words to choose from to deliver your exact shade of meaning. — Laura Fraser

It must be pleasant to be occasionally guilty of a small abomination. — Eliphas Levi

To believe that He will preserve us is, indeed, a means of preservation. God will certainly preserve us, and make a way of escape for us out of the temptation, should we fall. We are to pray for what God has already promised. Our requests are to be regulated by His promises and commands. Faith embraces the promises and so finds relief. — John Owen

We don't have too much ritual in our life anymore. And these life symbols which people rely on to keep their feeling of well being, that life is not too bad after all are required more and more. — John Hench

The word constructionism is a mnemonic for two aspects of the theory of science education underlying this project. From constructivist theories of psychology we take a view of learning as a reconstruction rather than as a transmission of knowledge. Then we extend the idea of manipulative materials to the idea that learning is most effective when part of an activity the learner experiences as constructing a meaningful product. — Seymour Papert

If there be some who, though ignorant of all mathematics ... dare to reprove this work, because of some passage of Scripture, which they have miserably warped to their purpose, I regard them not, and even despise their rash judgement. — Nicolaus Copernicus

The Unbookables are supposed to be unbookable. That's what it's all about. — Doug Stanhope

I set out to really build this universe of interfaith connectedness, where people could see that other people in different parts of the world are very much like them. — Oprah Winfrey

Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual; and the spirit of extreme equality, which conducts it to despotism, as the despotism of a single individual finishes by conquest. — Baron De Montesquieu