“There is a theology to gardening that few of us consider, but to understand this theology means relinquishing much control - our arsenal of books, techniques, tools, chemicals, fertilizers, fancy hybrids, and expectations. Yet, that is exactly what we must do if we are to fully embrace a more spiritual form of gardening. As a part of Nature we must learn to enter our garden as if it were truly sacred, we must learn to enter with humility.” IfsMeanBookSpiritualFormSpiritualityLearningHumilityExpectationsGardenToolsSacredEmbraceTechniqueTheologyFancyChemicalsGardeningArsenalHybridFertilizerRelinquishingRelinquishing Control Author:Christopher McDowell
“The whole thing is this: If you don't use just basic grammar, if you don't get the language down, you're not going to have access to a tool that people use as a weapon against you. The only reason I was never taught to read and write was because it was easier for them to lead me. But the second I learned to read and write, I began to lead myself.” PeopleIfsInspirationalWritingReasonWholeUseReadingLanguageLearningTaughtEasierWeaponsToolsAccessLiteracyGrammarLeading Me Author:Jimmy Santiago Baca
“I've come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It's my personal approach that creates the climate. It's my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess tremendous power to make a student's life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a student humanized or de-humanized.” LifeInspirationalChildrenI CanInspirationSchoolHurtEducationResponsibilitySituationTeachPowerLearningTeacherStudentsElementsApproachCreatingToolsCrisisInstrumentsClimateResponseEducationalMoodHealWeatherConclusionMiserableTortureI've LearnedClassroomFrighteningJoyousPersonal ResponsibilityTeaching ChildrenTeaching And LearningEducation And TeachersHumiliateTeaching And EducationTeaching EducationTeaching LearningInspirational TeacherTeacher And StudentGreat TeachingTeaching StudentsTeachers Learning From StudentsLearning And GrowingEffective TeacherTeachers From Kids Author:Haim Ginott
“Our system of education is locked in a time capsule. You want to say to the people in charge, 'You're not using today's tools! Wake up!'” PeopleWantTodayTechnologyLearningTeachingToolsWake UpLockedTime Capsules Author:George Lucas
“The tools we use have a profound and devious influence on our thinking habits, and therefore on our thinking abilities.” ThinkingUseAbilityLearningInfluenceHabitToolsProfoundProgrammingComputer ProgrammingProgramming LanguagesComputer LanguageDevious Book:Selected Writings on Computing: A personal Perspective Source: Selected Writings on Computing: A personal Perspective
“A most important, but also most elusive, aspect of any tool is its influence on the habits of those who train themselves in its use. If the tool is a programming language this influence is, whether we like it or not, an influence on our thinking habits.... A programming language is a tool that has profound influence on our thinking habits.” IfsThinkingImportantUseLanguageLearningInfluenceHabitAspectToolsTrainProfoundProgrammingElusiveComputer ProgrammingProgramming LanguagesComputer Language Book:A Discipline of Programming Source: A Discipline of Programming
“We are all shaped by the tools we use, in particular: the formalisms we use shape our thinking habits, for better or for worse, and that means that we have to be very careful in the choice of what we learn and teach, for unlearning is not really possible.” ThinkingMeanUseChoicesTeachLearningParticularHabitShapesToolsCarefulProgramming Author:Edsger Dijkstra
“In the development of the understanding of complex phenomena, the most powerful tool available to the human intellect is abstraction. Abstraction arises from the recognition of similarities between certain objects, situations, or processes in the real world and the decision to concentrate on these similarities and to ignore, for the time being, their differences.” WorldHumansRealCertainProcessUnderstandingDifferencesDecisionPowerfulSituationLearningObjectsDevelopmentToolsComplexesAvailableIntellectAriseRecognitionProgrammingMost PowerfulReal WorldAbstractionSimilarityComputer ProgrammingProgramming LanguagesComputer Language Author:Tony Hoare
“One purpose of CRC cards [a design tool] is to fail early, to fail often, and to fail inexpensively. It is a lot cheaper to tear up a bunch of cards that it would be to reorganize a large amount of source code.” Would BePurposeLearningFailingDesignTearsSourceAmountToolsBunchCardsCodeProgrammingCheaperComputer ProgrammingProgramming LanguagesComputer Language Author:Cay S. Horstmann
“...One of the most important lessons, perhaps, is the fact that SOFTWARE IS HARD. From now on I shall have significantly greater respect for every successful software tool that I encounter. During the past decade I was surprised to learn that the writing of programs for TeX and Metafont proved to be much more difficult than all the other things I had done (like proving theorems or writing books). The creation of good software demand a significiantly higher standard of accuracy than those other things do, and it requires a longer attention span than other intellectual tasks.” WritingImportantBookHardDoneFactsPastDifficultAttentionLearningSuccessfulGreaterCreationHigherLessonsDemandProveIntellectualStandardsProgramToolsTasksDecadesEncountersProgrammingSoftwareWriting A BookAccuracyTheoremsAttention SpanImportant LessonsHigher Standards Author:Donald Knuth
“There is a race between the increasing complexity of the systems we build and our ability to develop intellectual tools for understanding their complexity. If the race is won by our tools, then systems will eventually become easier to use and more reliable. If not, they will continue to become harder to use and less reliable for all but a relatively small set of common tasks. Given how hard thinking is, if those intellectual tools are to succeed, they will have to substitute calculation for thought.” IfsThinkingHardUseGivenUnderstandingAbilityCommonRaceLearningEasierSucceedIntellectualToolsTasksHarderComplexityProgrammingSubstitutesCalculationsComputer ProgrammingProgramming LanguagesComputer Language Author:Leslie Lamport