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SCRIBBLISMS Failure To Learn

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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 […]

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SCRIBBLISMS Empty To Open

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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 […]

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GRIBOUILLISMES Videz Pour Ouvrir

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SCRIBBLISMS Desireless Mess

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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, […]

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GRIBOUILLISMES Libérez Le Désire

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SCRIBBLISMS Unloving Spoonful

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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 […]

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GRIBOUILLISMES Cette Cuillère Qui Dessert

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  Lorsque vous nourrissez quelqu’un à la cuillère, vous lui permettez de ruminer sa médiocre existence de façon passive, sans faire le moindre effort pour apprendre et grandir. L’éducation, ce n’est pas ça. Pour apprendre et grandir, on a besoin de penser par soi-même. Les professeurs peuvent vous aider à apprendre mais ils ne peuvent […]

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SCRIBBLISMS Bon Voyage

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I discovered this pleasing quote… thanks to Marion Charreau and her wonderful exploration of the French language through amazing visual maps in her book Le Français Vu Du Ciel – (French Seen From Above) – and I can only agree with her, and him (Norbert, our quoted). Language is so intimately entwined with the culture and […]

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SCRIBBLISMS Fishy Tales

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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 […]

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GRIBOUILLISMES Ardoises Vierges Attendent

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