“The only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.”
Mark Zuckerberg
Education Philosophy
January 16, 2018 by
“Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.”
—Robert M. Hutchins
Inspire
January 15, 2018 by
“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.”
-William A. Ward
Student Development
January 14, 2018 by
“Students don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.”
Anon
Desire
January 13, 2018 by
“Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.”
— Leonardo da Vinci
Action Learning
January 11, 2018 by
“Recipes tell you nothing. Learning techniques is the key.”
— Tom Colicchio
Good to Great
January 10, 2018 by
“The key to pursuing excellence is to embrace an organic, long-term learning process, and not to live in a shell of static, safe mediocrity. Usually, growth comes at the expense of previous comfort or safety.”
— Josh Waitzkin
Action
January 8, 2018 by
“Action comes about if and only if we find a discrepancy between what we are experiencing and what we want to experience.”
—Philip J. Runkel
“Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right'. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.”
― Napoleon Hill