Wit & Wisdom
August 2012
The Bad Habits You Learn in School
And it's not about smoking. John Coleman via Harvard Business Review Read more
Phyllis Diller on Children
"We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up." - Phyllis Diller RIP Read more
College M.I.A.'s #7
College Missing In Action: J.D. Salinger, Harry S. Truman, Steve Jobs, Ted Turner -- Didn't Attend College Or Dropped Out -- "Some of the people coming out of those apprenticeships are in more demand than college graduates because they've actually managed things in the workplace." Read more
Weekend Light - Daniel Radcliffe Sings the Elements
Harry Potter sings the periodic table of elements on the Graham Norton show with Colin Farrell, Rihanna...humor video Read more
A Fine Line
Do you have a first-rate intelligence? Read more
Financial Literacy: Making Math Relevant
Guest Post By Joe Ganem Ph. D.: Schools Fail Teaching Students "Quantitative Literacy" Read more
The Day I Abolished Grading
"There was no love for learning. It was a game that I was perpetuating - and I was done perpetuating it." Joe Bower Read more
A Definitive Guide for Developing a Technology Vision Statement for your School
. . ."students will be inquisitive, open-minded learners who use technology in a balanced & responsible manner along the way to becoming discerning, self-directed life-long learners . . ." Read moreNow, keeping in mind these fourfold interests - interest in conversation, or communication; in inquiry, or finding out things; in making things or construction; and in artistic expression - we may say they are natural resources, the uninvested capital, upon the exercise of which depends the active growth of the child..John Dewey, The School and Society, 1900
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