Metaphor = Understanding: Daily Inspire
Published: Fri, 09/07/12
Daily Inspire! Metaphor = Understanding A metaphor is simply a way of communicating. It's a shortcut to instant understanding. Think of it as a mental…
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2 Kinds of Readers: Daily Inspire
Published: Thu, 09/06/12
Daily Inspire! 2 Kinds of Readers Teachers: two kinds: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move and the kind that just give…
A New Women's Movement: Daily Inspire
Published: Wed, 09/05/12
Daily Inspire! A New Women's Movement "I like to think that a new women's movement is brewing--one that's no longer about equality but about…
What's Your Major?: Daily Inspire
Published: Tue, 09/04/12
Daily Inspire! What's Your Major? The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read. ~Mark Twain A capacity and taste…
Art and Freedom: Daily Inspire
Published: Mon, 09/03/12
Daily Inspire! Art and Freedom Artists should have a say on governance, first because all citizens should have a say, and second because the…
Ignore or Require: Daily Inspire
Published: Fri, 08/31/12
Daily Inspire! Ignore or Require The principle of "inspiring rather than requiring" is one of the great keys of quality education. Force weakens…
The Story of Fidgety Philip : Daily Inspire
Published: Thu, 08/30/12
Daily Inspire! Inner Genius "Let me see if Philip can Be a little gentleman; Let me see if he is able To sit still for once at table:" Thus Papa bade…
To fill a vessel or to start a fire?: Daily Inspire
Published: Wed, 08/29/12
Daily Inspire! Start a Fire "Mind on Fire" by MarrusArt.com "The mind is not a vessel which calls for filling. "It is a pile*, which simply requires…
Inspire, Not Require=Joy in Learning: Daily Inspire
Published: Tue, 08/28/12
Daily Inspire! Inspire, Not Require "Most often attention is confused with a kind of muscular effort. "If one says to one's pupils: 'Now you must pay…
The Labor of Thinking: Daily Inspire
Published: Mon, 08/27/12
Daily Inspire! The Labor of Thinking Sir Joshua Reynolds wrote of many educational systems: A provision of endless apparatus, a bustle of infinite…