Benjamin Bloom Quotes

…a student attains ‘higher order thinking’ when he no longer believes in right or wrong”. “A large part of what we call good teaching is a teacher´s ability to obtain affective objectives by challenging the student’s fixed beliefs. …
BENJAMIN BLOOM

Children Education Teacher
Therefore, if we are effective, the distribution of grades will be anything but a normal curve. In fact, a normal curve is evidence of our failure to teach.
BENJAMIN BLOOM

Anything Curve Distribution Failure Normal Teach
The normal curve is a distribution most appropriate to chance and random activity. Education is a purposeful activity and we seek to have students learn what we would teach.
BENJAMIN BLOOM

Assessment Curves Teaching
A large part of what we call teaching is that the teacher should be able to use education to reorganize a child’s thoughts, attitudes, and feelings.
BENJAMIN BLOOM

Education Reorganize Teacher
What any person in the world can learn, almost all persons can learn if provided with appropriate prior and current conditions of learning.
BENJAMIN BLOOM

Education Inspirational Learning
While what is superstition, fad, and myth can be recognized as such and used only when there is nothing else to support us in our frustration and despair.
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Despair Myth Nothing Recognized Superstitious Support
Creativity follows mastery, so mastery of skills is the first priority for young talent.
BENJAMIN BLOOM

Creativity Inspirational Sports
We need to be much clearer about what we do and do not know so that we don’t continually confuse the two. If I could have one wish for education, it would be the systematic ordering of our basic knowledge in such a way that what is known and true can be acted on.
BENJAMIN BLOOM

Education Frustration Inspirational
After forty years of intensive research on school learning in the United States as well as abroad, my major conclusion is: What any person in the world can learn, almost all persons can learn if provided with appropriate prior and current conditions of learning.
BENJAMIN BLOOM

Condition Person School World Years

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