Millions and hundreds of self-helpy books and inspirational articles and cheesy memes attest to the common belief that you need to succeed in failing before you can ever hope to not fail to succeed. The idea is that it’s not only unimportant if you screw up the first few times you try something new, but that […]
It’s the classic paradigm: I (the omniscient teacher) know stuff, and you (the ignorant student) don’t. Also, you believe, or have been led to believe, that by knowing some, if not all of the stuff I know, you might be able to one day be where I am, imparting more of the same stuff to […]
It’s funny to think that in between being a genius and painting surreptitiously smiling signoras and inventing helicopters and engines of war and dissecting the human anatomy and jotting down all his insights in mirror writing, Leonardo da Vinci was able to come up with wise words on all manner of things, like learning for example, […]
When you spoon-feed someone, you make it easy for them to passively munch on their mediocre existence without making any effort to learn and grow. This is not what learning and education is about. In order to learn and grow you need to think for yourself. Teachers can help you to do this, but they […]
This old sea story… must be one of the very first of these fancy aphorism thingies that I came across in my teaching career or maybe before, and it’s probably one of the most profound because it’s stuck with me ever since… Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a […]
I’ve always been intrigued… by people’s professions of brilliance, for themselves or for others (family members are a favourite) and their justifications for their beliefs. Personally, I tend more towards what today’s Scribblism is getting at: Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. [symple_spacing size=”10″] ~ Will Durant (🐦 Tweet Me!)
And here it is… a brand new series of wise & wonderful things people have said (including moi?!) about learning & teaching, education & knowledge, failure & success! The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled. [symple_spacing size=”10″] ~ Plutarch (🐦 Tweet Me!)