Quote of the Day, via AddAll :
The world must learn to work together, or finally it will not work at all.
-- Dwight Eisenhower
See also
http://wheatoncollege.edu/international-relations/
A defining characteristic of an Athenæum is to be a "venue for intellectual exchange" (Boston Athenæum website, retrieved 9/18/12). Playgrounds are venues for play, typically for children, outdoors. Both places of learning and growth are usually that -- physical places in the world. I'm a lifelong learner, and this is one of my blogs.
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Thursday, September 15, 2016
Two Monkeys Were Paid Unequally: Excerpt from Frans de Waal's TED Talk
Thanks to Martha Harrington for sharing this video in her CES/Fitchburg State graduate class on Positive Behavior Supports during a lesson on Fair does not always mean Equal, Fair means Everyone Gets What They Need
Monday, September 12, 2016
Kids Do Well if They Can Ross Greene #1
"This is the most important theme of Collaborative Problem Solving: the belief that if kids could do well they would do well. In other words, if the kid had the skills to exhibit adaptive behavior, he wouldn't be exhibiting challenging behavior. That's because doing well is always preferable to not doing well."
Friday, May 2, 2014
Was kümmert mich mein Müll von gestern?
On the topic of being willing to upgrade with updated data:
Was kümmert mich mein Müll von gestern?
“What do I
care about my garbage from yesterday?” as described by Elizabeth Wayland Barber in Women’s Work: The First 20,000 Years.
Each new fact discovered made the
picture necessarily look a little different, and he was quite happy to let go
of old, outmoded views—the garbage—and move on to a new vision with a joyful
laugh of discovery. (299)
Barber, E. J. W.
Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early
times. New York: Norton, 1994. Print.
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