Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Kathy Hirsh-Pasek

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a professor Kathy Hirsh-Pasek.

Last updated on April 16, 2025.

Kathy Hirsh-Pasek is the Stanley and Deborah Lefkowitz Professor of Psychology at Temple University in Philadelphia, where she directs the Temple University Infant Language Laboratory. She is the author of 14 books and over 200 publications on early childhood and infant development, with a specialty in language and literacy, and playful learning. Her book, Becoming Brilliant, written with colleague Roberta Golinkoff, was on the NYT Best Seller's list in education and parenting. Hirsh-Pasek is also a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution's Center for Universal Education. She was the past president of the International Congress of Infant Studies and was on the governing board of the Society for Research in Child Development.

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Content is built on communication. You can't learn anything if you haven't learned how to understand language, or to read.

Kathy Hirsh-Pasek

Collaboration is everything from getting along with others to controlling your impulses so you can get along and not kick someone else off the swing. It's building a community and experiencing diversity and culture. Everything we do, in the classroom or at home, has to be built on that foundation.

Kathy Hirsh-Pasek

Learning isn't just K-12. It starts prenatally. If you get a bead on what your children are and aren't being exposed to at school, that will suggest the kinds of experiences you want your children to have outside of school.

Kathy Hirsh-Pasek

We're training kids to do what computers do, which is spit back facts. And computers are always going to be better than human beings at that. But what they're not going to be better at is being social, navigating relationships, being citizens in a community. So we need to change the whole definition of what success in school, and out of school, means.

Kathy Hirsh-Pasek

Critical thinking relies on content, because you can't navigate masses of information if you have nothing to navigate to.

Kathy Hirsh-Pasek

Creative innovation requires knowing something. You can't just be a monkey throwing paint on a canvas. It's the 10,000-hour rule: You need to know something well enough to make something new.

Kathy Hirsh-Pasek

If Rip Van Winkle came back, there's only one institution he would recognize: "Oh! That's a school. Kids are still sitting in rows, still listening to the font of wisdom at the front of the classroom."

Kathy Hirsh-Pasek

What we do with little kids today will matter in 20 years. If you don't get it right, you will have an unlivable environment. That's the crisis I see.

Kathy Hirsh-Pasek

Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Kathy Hirsh-Pasek

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