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  1. “Here’s why: learning is hard. True, learning is fun, exhilarating and gratifying — but it is also often daunting, exhausting and sometimes discouraging. . . . To help chronically low-performing but intelligent students, educators and parents must first recognize that character is at least as important as intellect”

    www.nytimes.com
    baetsie

  2. “The researchers’ conclusion was that, in the context of strange toys of unknown function, prior explanation does, indeed, inhibit exploration and discovery. Generalising from that would be ambitious. But it suggests that further research might be quite a good idea.”

    www.economist.com
    protoslacker

  3. “Music so wishes to be heard that it becomes available to anyone who is able to listen with innocent ears. So, what does it take to be present, available & willing, to help Music into our sorry world?”

    www.dgmlive.com
    protoslacker

  4. “The intrinsic path to success is to focus on being the person that you are, and put all of your energy and drive into being the best possible version of yourself.”

    paulbuchheit.blogspot.com
    Zelnox

  5. “What she did, though, was lean down close to Elizabeth and look her right in the eye. And she said: "Well, it's a difficult choice isn't it? They're both such wonderful things. But it seems to me that you could use the bag every day. You could use it to keep your books when you go to school, and school is very important. I had to study very hard to become a prefect. And the owl ..." With this she leaned even closer and almost whispered in Elizabeth's ear: "I must tell you: Owls are not of much use in the muggle world."”

    joeposnanski.blogspot.com
    protoslacker

  6. “the way to improve on traditional models is not to abandon them but to go them one better. The solution is to offer gifted scientists and scholars who have proved themselves in the old system new and better ways to do their work. More radical proposals sound good, stir up brief but heated debates and sell books. But they will not help us save the complex, delicate ecology of teaching and learning from the ice age that now threatens it.”

    nationalinterest.org
    baetsie

  7. “That being the smartest or most accomplished kid in class has never had any bearing on being the happiest. We are so caught up in trying to give our children “advantages” that we’re giving them lives as multi-tasked and stressful as ours. One of the biggest advantages we can give our children is a simple, carefree childhood.”

    magicalchildhood.wordpress.com
    Zelnox

  8. “learning becomes better if conditions are arranged so that students make errors.”

    www.scientificamerican.com
    georgesduverger

  9. “People remember things better, longer, if they are given very challenging tests on the material, tests at which they are bound to fail. In a series of experiments, they showed that if students make an unsuccessful attempt to retrieve information before receiving an answer, they remember the information better than in a control condition in which they simply study the information. Trying and failing to retrieve the answer is actually helpful to learning.”

    www.scientificamerican.com
    missrogue

  10. “Here's the industry's dirty secret:Programmers who don't touch-type fit a profile.If you're a touch-typist, you know the profile I'm talking about. It's dirty. People don't talk about dirty secrets in polite company. Illtyperacy is the bastard incest child hiding in the industry's basement. I swear, people get really uncomfortable talking about it. We programmers act all enlightened on Reddit, but we can't face our own biggest socio-cultural dirty secret.”

    steve-yegge.blogspot.com
    sfllaw