quotes


 * "I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it." -- Jonathan Winters, comedian


 * Play is the oldest form of education. And any parent that relies on, or any organization that hires from, institutions that don't use play will get people with only brittle, superficial, and transient knowledge at best. -- [|Clark Aldrich]


 * Critical thinking is a set of tools that help you correct errors in your own reasoning and resist being persuaded by errors in others. It has the same status as mathematics, and failing to teach it has similarly devastating consequences. --OLDaily

2014.07
 * To add relevance to the curriculum, simply add the stem "so that . . ." at the end of each posted objective as a way of describing how the skill and content will benefit students. http://www.edutopia.org/blog/9-ways-plan-transformational-lessons-todd-finley - productive struggle


 * irresistibly engaging. technology efficient and easy to use. ubiquitous technology - byod with ground rules. real life problem solving


 * **Learning** is the free and open-source version of **education** - It's about individuals connecting to knowledge and pursuing their passions  among peers and guides with fewer constraints--time, place, cash, or otherwise. http://learningfreedomandtheweb.org/the-book/learningxfreedom/ * 2011


 * Stay hungry. Stay foolish. --Steve Jobs (1955-2011) quoting Whole Earth Catalog


 * The core skill of innovators is error recovery, not failure avoidance. --Randy Nelson, President of Pixar University.


 * It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so. --frequently attributed to Mark Twain, and often to Will Rogers, Satchel Paige, Artemus Ward, as well as others


 * education has been subjected to the tyranny of the Right Answer, even though the most important questions don't have right answers. - Who am I? Why should you believe me? Is this real? What is the most important thing that we should do next? --[|Edward Mokurai Cherlin ]


 * You are the same today as you will be in five years except for two things, the people you meet and the books you read. --?