Quote of the day...

Quote of the day...

"And still, after all this time, the Sun has never said to the Earth, 'You owe me.'
Look what happens with love like that.  It lights up the sky."

--Jalal ad-Din Rumi, Persian poet

Quick Read - The Art of Taking Criticism

The Art of Taking Criticism

Quote of the day...

"There is a comfort in the strength of love;
'Twill make a thing endurable,
which else would overset the brain,
or break the heart."

--William Wordsworth

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY, ALL!

Quote of the day...

"Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love."

--Nelson Rockefeller

Quote of the day...

Yesterday:
"If we are ever in doubt about what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done."
--John Lubbock

Today:
"Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own."
--Robert Heinlein

Do we allow our students to play Journey?

Take a few minutes to watch this - it's a great piece.  He makes some really great points about where education was, and where it is now as a result of the resources that are at our fingertips - as well as the fingertips of our students.



In Principal J's blog post, Why School?, she discusses the book that Will wrote as well.

His last quote has stuck with me and caused a great deal of reflection: "In times of change, learners inherit the earth while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists."