Surviving Formal Education
“It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.” – Albert Einstein
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This is Science?
This is a list of comments from test papers, essays, etc., submitted to science and health teachers by elementary, junior high, high school, and college students. It is truly astonishing what weird science our young scholars can create under the … Continue reading →
Valuable Lessons to Teach
“One should pay attention to even the smallest crawling creature for these too may have a valuable lesson to teach us.” – Black Elk
Continue reading →Productive Failure or Unproductive Success?
“Uncommon Sense says that a productive failure is better than a non productive success. A productive failure is a failure that, upon analysis, teaches us something that can lead to future success. Non-productive success is success that we achieve but … Continue reading →
Knowing the Bible
“No man is uneducated who knows the Bible, and no one is wise who is ignorant of its teachings.” – Samuel Chadwick
Continue reading →Hear, See, Do
“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.” – Confucius
Continue reading →Learning and the Mind
“Learning never exhausts the mind.” – Leonardo da Vinci
Continue reading →A Teacher Affects Eternity
“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” – Henry Adams
Continue reading →Meet Trouble as a Friend
“Trouble creates a capacity to handle it…meet it as a friend, for you’ll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
Continue reading →Learning and Leadership
“Learning and leadership are indispensable to each other.” – John F. Kennedy
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