I don't have deal breakers," Alan said. "I look on tempests, and am never shaken.
What any person in the world can learn, almost all persons can learn if provided with appropriate prior and current conditions of learning.
Creativity follows mastery, so mastery of skills is the first priority for young talent.
. . . a student attains 'higher order thinking' when he no longer believes in right or wrong". "A large part of what we call good teaching is a teacher´s ability to obtain affective objectives by challenging the student's fixed beliefs. . . . a large part of what we call teaching is that the teacher should be able to use education to reorganize a child's thoughts, attitudes, and feelings.
Education must be increasingly concerned about the fullest development of all children and youth, and it will be the responsibility of the schools to seek learning conditions which will enable each individual to reach the highest level of learning possible.
After forty years of intensive research on school learning in the United States as well as abroad, my major conclusion is: What any person in the world can learn, almost all persons can learn if provided with appropriate prior and current conditions of learning.
The normal curve is a distribution most appropriate to chance and random activity. Education is a purposeful activity and we seek to have students learn what we would teach. Therefore, if we are effective, the distribution of grades will be anything but a normal curve. In fact, a normal curve is evidence of our failure to teach.
It is imperative that we recognize that whatever has happened to us has happened to others. They have coped and so must we. We are not alone. Heavenly Father's help is near.
O, teach me how you look, and with what art You sway the motion of Demetrius' heart. "-Helena
To use color well is as difficult as for a fish to pass from water to air or earth.
Morality is only moral when it is voluntary.