Ana Lorena Fabrega is an educator, writer, and entrepreneur. she was born on 11 February, 1992 in Panama she is the chief Evangelist at Synthesis School, an education network where kids learn complex problem solving through competitive team games. She’s frequently cited source on the future of education
Top 60 Quotes Of Ana Lorena Fabrega.
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School doesn’t teach us to question the default. Quite the opposite, actually.
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Instilling a love for learning is the most valuable gift we can give kids.
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In school, we spend most of our time consuming existing knowledge rather than producing new insights. We strive for correctness instead of novelty.
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We cannot *educate* kids. We can only inspire them to educate themselves.
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In school, we lose points for our mistakes. In the real world, we learn the most from our mistakes.
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In school, we have to wait for instructions and do as we are told. In the real world, we have to figure things out.
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We must teach our kids to think differently yet schools do exactly the opposite.
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Being “good at school” is a skill that doesn’t transfer well to real life.
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School rewards those who color inside the lines. The real world rewards those who think outside the box.
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Instead of demanding attention, try talking to kids about why it’s important to listen.
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Fitting in pays off in school. Standing out pays off in the real world.
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Schools try to put us into a box. We all learn the same things, in the same way, at the same time and pace.
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Learning is a byproduct of action. We learn best by doing.
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Try giving kids activities without step-by-step directions so they can practice solving novel problems.
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In school, we learn to not question authority. In the real world, we should question everything.
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What if schools looked more like playgrounds and less like prisons?
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Schools are astonishingly bad at teaching us *how* to think.
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Downtime leads to creative ideas. Not back-to-back schedules. Kids *need* time and space to relax, reflect, and be bored by inactivity.
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In school, we learn “just in case.” In the real world, we learn “on demand.”
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Intelligence is overrated. Great thinkers are built, not born.
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In school, we learn to play the status game. The grades game. The compliance game.
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Kids need to learn how to solve their own problems. And in order to do that, they need to be allowed to have problems in the first place.
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Let kids engage in unstructured play, where they have the freedom to find new interests.
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Projects create the perfect conditions for real learning to happen.
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Learning in school: Here’s your plate, eat up. Trust me, this is what you need. Learning in the real world: Here’s the menu. Order something that looks good to you.
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Packed schedules and extensive curriculums leave little room for them to play and connect.
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Let’s applaud kids for pursuing their curiosities and let’s make them feel like they’re learning, when it could seem like they’re “playing.”
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Education should be about cultivating kids’ desire to learn.
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If we don’t feed our psyches with autonomy, competency, and relatedness, our mental health suffers.
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Encourage kids to undertake activities where failure is a likely outcome just to they get used to failing.
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Good teachers are entertainers as much as they are educators.
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We need to normalize failure. Most of the people, products, and ideas we admire today failed painfully on their way to success.
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Don’t tell kids what to do all the time. Give them the opportunity to come up with their own ideas.
Ana Lorena Fabrega
Mistakes in school are penalized. Kids know that if they try and fail, they will get punished with a bad grade that will go on their permanent record. No wonder they give up.
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We treat kids like computers. Give them rules and information so they can process the data and spit out the right answer.
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Real learning happens when we work intensely on things that matter to us.
Ana Lorena Fabrega
Schools don’t teach kids *how* to think. They teach math, history, and literature “just in case,” but all that goes to waste unless kids know what to do with it.
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Don’t make kids memorize information they can google.
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The crucial test of education is whether kids want to learn more after they’re done.
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The faster we learn that the future may go many different directions, the better.
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Encourage more creation and less consumption.
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Find a balance between unstructured activities and projects with constraints so kids feel both motivated and challenged.
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Put kids in new situations, and their powerful little brains light up and kick into gear.
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Let them take a few bruises, bumps, and scars in a relatively safe environment.
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Let kids breathe. Give them time and space to work in private so they can experiment and explore.
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Throw away the instructions. Practice discovery, adventure, and exploration. You just might be surprised at what you invent.
Ana Lorena Fabrega
Imagine if schools viewed mistakes the way programmers do: Not as signs of failure, but as “bugs” that can be fixed.
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Our brains need lots of free time to process problems. That’s why we have our best ideas in the shower. Our thoughts wander until a lightbulb goes off.
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Reframe the learning process in such a way that kids don’t concern themselves with failure.
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When small mistakes are not penalized, kids feel motivation to pick themselves up, stick with a task, and keep learning.
Ana Lorena Fabrega
Gamification will be key to transform education. We need to get kids excited about their own end goals, focusing less on short-term marks or grades.
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Set a positive example by opening up about your own failures and how you handle them.
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Kids learn a lot about how to handle failure by watching adults.
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The old classroom model no longer makes sense in the digital age.
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In ten years, the world will look much different than any of us can imagine.
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Kids need a foundation. They need general knowledge about how to learn, how the world works, and how to solve problems.
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Give them space and encouragement to dive into what interests them.
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Point out what they and they alone can offer the world.
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If we help kids find and develop their specific knowledge from a young age, they will be able to offer the world something no one else can.
Ana Lorena Fabrega
By facing challenges on their own, children grow stronger into adulthood.
