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October 2011
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August 2011
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July 2011
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“Listen to the MUSN’TS, child,
Listen to the DON’TS
Listen to the SHOULDN’TS
The IMPOSSIBLES, the WON’TS
Listen to the NEVER HAVES
Then listen close to me -
Anything can happen, child,
ANYTHING can be.”
Shel Silverstein
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Conflict, je t'aime.
Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates invention. It shocks us out of sheep-like passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving…conflict is a sine qua non of reflection and ingenuity.
John Dewey
Skillful teaching involves facilitating the process by which kids come to grapple with complex ideas—and those ideas, as John Dewey has told us, have to emerge organically from the real-life interests and concerns of the kids.
Alfie Kohn
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Miró!
“The difficulty of always feeling that you ought to be doing something is that...”
– Brian Eno (via austinkleon)
June 2011
8 posts
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Laura Seargeant Richardson
“A playful mind thrives on ambiguity, complexity, and improvisation—the very things needed to innovate and come up with creative solutions to the massive global challenges in economics, the environment, education, and more.”
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May 2011
5 posts
“College grads are often sent out into the world amid rapturous talk of limitless...”
– David Brooks, “It’s Not About You” (via austinkleon)
April 2011
18 posts
“Thought is not merely expressed in words; it comes into existence through them.”
– Lev Vygotsky
Children have a real understanding only of that which they invent themselves, and each time we try to teach them something too quickly, we keep them from reinventing it themselves.
—J. Piaget
