If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Alexander Maslow
As an educator, I continue to be inspired by the words of those who stretched the boundaries, who shared their discoveries, and allowed each of us to see further, for we have been permitted to ’stand on the shoulders of giants’
“….. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child…..”
Carl Jung
“…The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed. The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity…..”
Albert Einstein
“….Teachers now are expected to educate all students to a level once reached by only 20 percent of the students and to do so in a highly multi-cultural, multi-linguistic, multi-ethnic society that is faced with rapid technological change and economic disarray…..”
Clinton E. Boutwell, author of Shell Game: Corporate America’s Agenda for Schools
"...We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely"
E.O.Wilson (biologist)
Too bad ignorance isn't painful
Until we start to think of computers more like finger paint and less like television, computers will not live up to their full potential
Mitchel Resnick
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
George Orwell
So long as a man rides his hobbyhorse peaceably and quietly along the King’s highway, and neither compels you or me to get up behind him – pray, Sir, what have either you or I to do with it?
Laurence Sterne, 1759
The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
Martin Luther King, Jr
While I think the Internet, and all that technology associated with it, has highlighted the poverty of extreme individualism and has heightened the ways and the ease with which we can now interconnect, the Internet is but the latest iteration of the technologies humans have devised to heighten their ability to connect and collaborate.
Keith Hamon"digital technologies are now providing educators and students with tools of study, as opposed to tools of instruction"
we've reached the point in our (disparate) cultural adaptation to computing and communication technology that the younger technical generations are so empowered they are impatient and ready to jettison institutions most of the rest of us tend to think of as essential, central, even immortal. They are ready to dump our schools
Robert Cringely
Technology is not the enemy -- ignorance is. I am concerned that we need to intentionally teach students the technology skills they need to know. They do not get it automatically nor do they necessarily learn it at home.
