We cannot teach people anything. We can only help them discover it within themselves. Galileo
Tag: Ignatian Education
Teach & Serve II, No. 10 – Leaders Should Hold Themselves to the Highest Standards
Teach & Serve II, No. 10 – Leaders Should Hold Themselves to the Highest Standards October 12, 2016 … we don’t meet these standards because we are being watched. We meet them because we know that meeting them makes us better leaders, more integrated leaders, more authentic leaders. I, like many, am fatigued by our current…
EduQuote of the Week: October 10 – October 16, 2016
What the teacher is, is more important than what the teacher teaches. Karl Menninger
Teach & Serve II, No. 9 – You Don’t Get to Choose When the Crisis Hits
Teach & Serve II, No. 9 – You Don’t Get to Choose When the Crisis Hits October 5, 2016 As teachers and administrators we exist to do many things, one of those things is to provide stability in the face of crisis. I read comic books. I’ve read them since I was in the first grade and,…
EduQuote of the Week: October 3 – October 9, 2016
The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you. B.B. King
Teach & Serve II, No. 8 – I Hope Our Students Are Better
Teach & Serve II, No. 8 – I Hope Our Students Are Better September 28, 2016 … the idea that somehow being less is really being more is dangerous. I do not understand. I do not understand the how or the when. How did it become a good thing to be less informed, less inquisitive, less prepared?…
Teach & Serve II, No. 7 – Don’t Waste a Good Laugh Being Too Professional
Teach & Serve II, No. 7 – Don’t Waste a Good Laugh Being Too Professional September 21, 2016 … how often are we wound tightly by the seriousness of our work? How often are we so taken with the gravity of the job that we forget to smile? How often, each and every day, do we…
EduQuote of the Week: September 19 – 25, 2016
If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow. John Dewey
Teach & Serve II, No. 6 – Right Place at the Right Time
Teach & Serve II, No. 6 – Right Place at the Right Time September 14, 2016 I just don’t know what having a 3.75 or a 4.00 does for you? Will it potentially get you into a better school? Sure it will. Potentially. Will it get you a scholarship? Same answer. Potentially. Should you work hard because,…
EduQuote of the Week: September 12 – 18, 2016
The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention rather than to provide ready-made knowledge. Seymour Papert