Quote of the Day

Piglet sidled up behind Pooh.
“Pooh,” he whispered.
“Yes, Piglet?”
“Nothing,” said Piglet. “I just wanted to be sure of you.”

…Learning only happens AFTER you feel safe.

“Tell me and I’ll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I’ll understand.”

“It’s the 21st Century. Knowing how to read a novel, craft an essay, and derive the slope of a tangent isn’t enough anymore. You need to know how to swim through the data deluge, optimize your prose for Twitter, and expose statistics that lie…. Call it the neoliberal arts: higher learning for highly evolved humans.”

“Many people set aside their passions to pursue things they don’t care about for the sake of financial security. The fact is, though, that the job you took because it “pays the bills” could easily move offshore in the coming decade. If you have never learned to think creatively and to explore your true capacity, what will you do then?”

“It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man (WTWL interjects, “or student”) who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won’t go.”

If you’ve ever hired or managed or taught, you know the feeling.

People are just begging to be told what to do. There are a lot of reasons for this, but I think the biggest one is: “If you tell me what to do, the responsibility for the outcome is yours, not mine. I’m safe.”

When asked, resist.

It took me about 3 months to truly figure out how conversations work here and to feel like I understood the norms of the Verse. The effort was worth it times ten, though….It’s where I turn first for professional growth and learning now!

“You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.”

Try something different. If it turns out to be a mistake then you’ve learned something, so it isn’t really a mistake.

“My contention is that creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.”