Educating the Dragon » thoughtoftheweek http://educatingthedragon.edublogs.org A learning journey with no fixed abode Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:25:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Thoughts of the day http://educatingthedragon.edublogs.org/2009/08/20/thoughts-of-the-day/ http://educatingthedragon.edublogs.org/2009/08/20/thoughts-of-the-day/#comments Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:22:50 +0000 Dragon09 http://educatingthedragon.edublogs.org/?p=510

“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.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Kate Sheppard , Is it right? (1892)

Today in history, in 1893 The womens suffrage petition was presented.

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“You can’t teach subjects, only how to learn them.”

- Irongate School, Staff noticeboard (today)

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“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

]]> http://educatingthedragon.edublogs.org/2009/02/09/thought-of-the-week/feed/ 1 Thinking out loud II http://educatingthedragon.edublogs.org/2009/01/26/thinking-out-loud-ii/ http://educatingthedragon.edublogs.org/2009/01/26/thinking-out-loud-ii/#comments Mon, 26 Jan 2009 09:55:47 +0000 Dragon09 http://educatingthedragon.edublogs.org/2009/01/26/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"

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Abbe talking with Dante “Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding.

The first requires memory, the second, philosophy”

Abbe

“The Count of Monte Cristo” by Alexandre Dumas

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