“ If you want to get away with wielding true, malevolent power, be boring.
Basleria
Clippings for my own little world.
Posts tagged "quote"
July 3, 2011
July 21, 2009
“ One of the key things that every scientist keeps in mind, is you should never fall in love with your theory. So it’s an idea, it’s a hypothesis, it fits all the known facts. But it has not yet been proven, and we must be willing to give it up and modify it if it is not proven. But we will learn something in doing so.
July 18, 2009
“ This is where teacher turns serious and asks the Big Question: What is education, anyway? What are we doing in this school? You can say you’re trying to graduate so you can go to college and prepare for a career. But, fellow students, it’s more than that. I’ve had to ask myself what the hell I’m doing in the classroom. I’ve worked out an equation for myself. On the left side of the blackboard I print a capital F, on the right side another capital F. I draw an arrow from left to right, from FEAR to FREEDOM. I don’t think anyone achieves complete freedom, but what I am trying to do with you is drive fear into a corner.
-Teacher Man: a memoir by By Frank McCourt
July 17, 2009
“ If students are led to focus on ‘how well’ they’re doing more than on ‘what’ they’re doing, they may do whatever they think is necessary to make it look as though they’re succeeding.
-Who’s Cheating Whom? by Alfie Kohn (Phi Delta Kappan)
July 1, 2009
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“Science is basically an inoculation against charlatans”
-Neil DeGrasse Tyson
April 20, 2009
“ The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.
-Stephen Hawking A Brief History of Time
April 17, 2009
April 6, 2009
“ Every high school in America needs to have a course in media literacy. We’re buried in this stuff. We’re breathing it. We’re drinking it constantly. It’s 24/7 news and information and pop culture… If you’re trying to educate kids to think critically about history and society and culture, you’ve got to be encouraging them to be thoughtful and critical about media and information and advertising.
March 28, 2009
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“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch you must first invent the universe” -Cosmos with Carl Sagan
October 17, 2008
“ Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
