Thoughts of the day
“If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.”
“The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.”
“Nothing great was ever acheived without enthusiasm.”
August 20, 2009
July 28, 2009
This day in History
Is it right that your mother, your sister… should be classed with criminals and lunatics… ? Is it right that while the loafer, the gambler, the drunkard, and even the wife-beater has a vote, earnest, educated and refined women are denied it?… Is it right… that a mother… should be thought unworthy of a vote that is freely given to the blasphemer, the liar, the seducer, and the profligate?
Kate Sheppard , Is it right? (1892)
Today in history, in 1893 The womens suffrage petition was presented.
March 23, 2009
Thought for the week
“You can’t teach subjects, only how to learn them.”
- Irongate School, Staff noticeboard (today)
February 9, 2009
Thought of the Week
“One of the enduring difficulties about technology and education is that a lot of people think about the technology first and the education later.”
Dr Martha Stone Wiske (1994)
co-director of the Educational Technology Center at the Harvard Graduate School of Education
January 26, 2009
Thinking out loud II
My Father always said:
" Be careful how you treat people when you’re on the way up. You never know who you’ll meet on the way back down"
