My adolescence was quite miserable, when I look back on it, at least my early part of my adolescence. Because there was anti-Semitism in Peoria, and I didn't feel that when I was in elementary school. —Betty Friedan 0 Teenage Years Quotes During my teenage years as an Islamist recruite...
Think of your classroom as a garden and each student as a unique flower. Unconditional Positive Regard is the sunlight and water that helps them bloom. When students feel accepted for who they are, trust blossoms. They're more likely to open up, share their thoughts, and engage in class d...
Children enter school as question marks and leave as periods The one real object of education is to leave a man in the condition of continually asking questions. # The soul grows by subtraction, not addition Simplicity after sophistication: I would not give a fig for the simplicity on this ...
I say to university students, “when something is rubbish, pick it up and put it in the rubbish bin where it belongs. And move along.” They are always so relieved. They think they are obliged to honor rubbish. They aren’t. They just have to bin it. With gusto and applomb. They...
Strichartz, 'The School of Antoni Zygmund', collected in Peter Duren (ed.), A Century of Mathematics in America (1989), 348. The authors acknowledge students of Zygmund provided personal recollections to them for the essay in general. Webmaster speculates the quote is from a student ...
When I was in elementary and middle school, she often talked about going to nursing school. Why didn’t she go? Was it because my brother (ten years older than me) was already going to UT in Austin? Was it because I would go to college someday and additional college tuition for her...
to clean them up. I’m not going to let anyone do that anymore.’ He had gone from being upset about getting in trouble, to truly feeling responsible for helping our custodian. To me, lessons like these are much more important than making sure students are punished for every infraction...
This chapter reports on a case study that explored the contributions of professional staff to student outcomes at one Australian university. This case study examined the practices of professional staff in their day-to-day work and analyzed their behavior
While he was still a medical student, he applied logotherapy to help high school students struggling with suicidal ideation in Vienna, because of the high suicide rate of this demographic. At the time of his medical school graduation, he had been able to reduce this suicide rate to zero, ...
She then asked the teachers to place the notes on students’ desks before they arrived at school the next day. She also gave pre-filled sticky notes to the lunch staff and to school administrators including the principal. The idea was to make it easy for teachers, staff and students to ...