“KM: Yes. Mrs. Lopez, she's human. And you know, clearly, she'd like people to show some appreciation for her hard work. But if people just, you know, take her pie and don't even say, "Hey, nice pie," they just scarf it down or whatever-
MH: I could see how that would get to be annoying. I mean, if you're constantly providing...pie. And getting no positive feedback-
KM: Right! And what about your future? I mean, how do you know people are still going to want your pie in the future? Supposing they become a famous rock star or something. People are going to be offering them pie all over the place. If they haven't promised only to eat your pie, well, where does that leave you?”
Source: Boy Meets Girl
“I've often wondered what would happen if, in the interest of public service, advertising companies lent out their best copywriters for a year or so to team up with teachers in designing educational materials.”
Source: Blue Cats and Chartreuse Kittens: How Synesthetes Color Their Worlds
“At school I was a nuisance, for my father was now Chairman of our Continuation School Board, and I affected airs of near-equality with the teacher that must have galled her; I wanted to argue about everything, expand everything, and generally turn every class into a Socratic powwwow instead of getting on with the curriculum. Probably I made her nervous, as a pupil full of green, fermenting information is so well able to do. I have dealt with many innumerable variations of my younger self in classrooms since then, and have mentally apologized for my tiresomeness.”
Source: Fifth business
“Sometimes you learn much more by thinking your own way than by the act of rigid studying.”
“Tying learning to music is so powerful that it has been harnessed as a tool for a variety of therapies. There are some incredible success
stories with military veterans with traumatic brain injury, stroke victims, and people with autism.”
Source: Wired to Grow: Harness the Power of Brain Science to Learn and Master Any Skill
“One of the biggest insights from brain science has to do with how our memories are made. We used to think it was repetition, which many of us experienced during our education, as we were forced to write or recite things again and again. But it turns out that it is retrieval, not repetition, that makes the difference. For conceptual learning, the evidence is clear: it is the act of retrieval—having to recall something we’ve learned—that makes learning memorable.”
Source: Wired to Grow: Harness the Power of Brain Science to Learn and Master Any Skill
“It is only by learning new things and by keeping in touch with old things will you know you more than you’ve ever known yourself.”
“Just like the sacrifice of parenting, teaching is a daily 'giving away' of myself. I give my time and my energy, my knowledge and my care. I give stories and I give listening. I give my attention and my interest. I give of myself. I give myself away. And I do it because I love it - because I love seeing children grow and learn and develop. I invest in my students, letting them know that I see them, that I believe they can learn, that I value their efforts... That they are important to me. And I do this, this giving and investing, because I know that the best kind of teaching stems from an authentic relationship. Don't tell them what you know until you show them that you care.”
Source: Dear Parents: Letters from the Teacher—your children, their education, and how you can help
“Learning how to become better communicators and better listeners will help us enter this new age of the experience economy and walk, talk and grow with civility as our foundation.”
Source: The Power of Civility: Top Experts Reveal the Secrets to Social Capital
“Ken, we may we are learned professors and have degrees but the knowledge you have about your people can never be found in Academic writings of the best universities, for the knowledge comes from the very people themselves.”
Source: Dermatopathologie: Ein Einstieg