“The teacher must herself be excited if she is to sell her goods. And she can do an exciting job in stirring the student without herself knowing all the answers.” IfsJobsCan DoAnswersKnowingTeacherTeachingStudentsExcitingSellsExcitedGoodsStirring Author:Julius Sumner Miller
“Who's counting? It was, of course, the minority who were counting. It always is. Most of the women I know today would dearly like to use their fingers and toes for some activity more enthralling than counting. They have been counting for so long. But the peculiar problem of the new math is that every time we stop adding, somebody starts subtracting. At the very least (the advanced students will understand this) the rate of increase slows. ... The minority members of any group or profession have two answers: They can keep score or they can lose.” KnowsLongHas BeensTwoUseProblemTodayCoursesLosesAnswersGroupsStudentsActivityMembersRacismIncreaseFingersRateMathProfessionDiscriminationInequalityScoreMinoritiesPeculiarToesCountingFingers And Toes Book:Making Sense Source: Making Sense
“In I'm Not A Racist, But..., Lawrence Blum offers answers for our time about what race is, who is a racist, and ways for people to talk about the racialized features of our society without falling into name-calling or defensiveness. With exemplary moral and analytic clarity, Blum offers educators, students, lawyers, judges, leaders, and citizens tools for building a nation of equality, comity, and respect for each person.” PeopleWayPersonsFallNamesNationsAnswersRaceLeaderMoralStudentsBuildingJudgingCitizensCallingOffersToolsLawyerClarityFeaturesOur TimeOur SocietyRacistEducatorAnalyticsExemplaryName CallingDefensiveness Author:Martha Minow
“We owe every student in every neighborhood in New Jersey an equal opportunity to succeed. We know that more money, alone, is not the answer. We need to redefine success, and how we pursue that success, by the outcomes obtained by students.” KnowsNeedsOpportunityAnswersStudentsSucceedEqualPursueOutcomesNeighborhoodMore MoneyJerseyNew JerseyEqual Opportunity Author:Thomas Kean, Jr.
“How can we help a child change from undependable to dependable, from a mediocre student to a capable student, from someone who won't amount to very much to someone who will count for something. The answer is at once both simple and complicated: We treat a child as if he already is what we would like him to become.” IfsChildrenHelpingSimpleAnswersStudentsAmountCapableTreatsComplicatedMediocreDependable Author:Haim Ginott
“From him [Wilard Bennett] I learned how different a working laboratory is from a student laboratory. The answers are not known! [While an undergraduate, doing experimental measurements in the laboratory of his professor, at Ohio State University.]” DifferentStatesAnswersKnownStudentsUniversityProfessorsLaboratoryMeasurementOhioUndergraduateOhio StateOhio State University Author:William M. Fowler
“Theory said one thing and the experiment said something different, so that was the stimulus that started me going, that there was something there to be explained, which wasn't understood and to try to see why that experiment gave the answer it did, so it was a big opportunity for a young student starting to have actually an experiment which contradicted the theory, so that's was my chance to understand that.” TryingSaidDifferentBigsYoungOpportunityChanceAnswersOne ThingStudentsTheoryUnderstoodStartingExperimentsStimulusYoung Students Author:Freeman Dyson
“A student might ask, how long will it take to learn guitar..., the answer is, as long as you live - that short.” LongMightAsksAnswersStudentsGuitar Author:Philip Toshio Sudo
“We always see abhorrent behavior and say why, but then we get mad when somebody tries to answer. Just to answer the question why does not say I'm validating behavior. I'm just saying, if we're going to be a student of human behavior, be a true student.” IfsTryingHumansDoeAnswersStudentsBehaviorMadHuman BehaviorJust SayingAbhorrent Author:Wendell Pierce