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On Teaching and Learning...

There is no logical way to the discovery of [complex scientific laws].  There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.  ~Albert Einstein in The Art of Thinking (p. 9)

Even in the face of my inability to comprehend the nature of this virtual environment, I persisted in my explorations.  I was encouraged, possibly by my fellow explorers, some of whom I believed had found the key to unlock the secrets of the MOO.  I followed them, blindly I suppose, because I could not see where I was going.  I tnever really occurred to me how the mere act of venturing into a new realm so completely altered my life course.  I, the cuatious, conservative, concrete, and careful, had dared to leap across time and space into another realm.  And, in this leap, my vision was forever altered.  It seemed as though I was blind when I first entered the MOO and had to see it through the eyes of others.  When my sight returned, I realized that everything looked different.  The old and familiar was now new and strange and this experience freed me to explore new possibilities and opportunities.  ~ Karen McComas on MOOs (March 19, 1998)

People who fail fall back upon emotion to direct their behavior; people who succeed rely upon reason and logic.  ~Glasser in Schools Without Failure

Did they simply fail to notice that the principal intellectual instrument available to human beings is not examined in schools ---Questions we might say, are the principal intellectual instruments available to human beings.  ~Neil Postman

Knowledge is produced in resonse to questions; and new knowledge results from the asking of new questions; quite often new questions about old questions.  Here is the point:  Once you have learned how to ask questions -- relevant and appropriate and substantial questions -- you have learned how to learn and no one can keep you from learning whatever you want or need to know.  ~ Neil Postman in Teaching as a Subversive Activity

"To understand something is to give up some other way of seeing it... --Walt Whitman

Knowledge is not information, it's transformation.  --Osho

Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. "It is an initiation into life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue. -- Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have.  -- Lee Iacocca

We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire  works of Shakespeare.  Now, thanks to the internet, we  know this is not true.  -- Professor Robert Silensky

If a doctor, lawyer, or dentist had 25 people in his office at one time, all of whom had different needs, and some of whom didn't want to be there and were causing trouble, and the doctor, lawyer, or dentist, without assistance, had to treat them all with professional excellence for nine months, then he might have some conception of the classroom teacher's job.  -- Colman McCarthy in The Washington Post

About Being...

And the day came when the risk [it took] to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. --Anais Nin

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.  -- Rainer Maria Rilke The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt.  --Thomas Merton

"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do."  --  Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 - 1962

High and wide is the gate which leads to self-deception and illusion but for those seeking truth, strait is the gate and narrow the way and brave is the man who can journey there. --Susan Howatch in "Glittering Images"

Human existence cannot be silent, nor can it be nourished by false words, but only by true words, with which people transform the world. To exist, humanly, is to name the world, to change it. Once named, the world in its turn reappears to the namers as a problem and requires of them a new naming. People are not built in silence, but in word, in work, in action-reflection.  ~Paulo Freire (in Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Paulo Freire (New York: Continuum, 1981) p.76.)

Miscellaneous...

Security is a kind of death. -- Tennessee Williams

"Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives us something to do, but we never get anywhere!" --- Unknown

"You will stop gyrating in a sexual fashion."  -- L. Dixon (at a middle school dance)