butitmight:

• Your ability to memorize mostly useless things
• Your ability to regurgitate information in the way others want you to
• Your ability to understand what adults want from you and give it to them
• Your tolerance for working on tasks you don’t find useful because others want you to do them or believe them to be helpful/socially acceptable

What grades do NOT determine:

• Your intelligence
• Your creativity
• Your emotional capabilities
• Your likeliness to succeed
• Whether you’re a good person

I hope my advisees walk away with this knowledge from DEAR.

indigo-awakening:

I can think of a few that have changed my world. Paulo Coelho being at the heart of a lot of those books!

For my advisory … always.

takeamomentandsmile:

I will always be there for you.

takeamomentandsmile:

learning all the lessons!

takeamomentandsmile:

THIS is to have succeeded!

We need to stop doing this to our students. Make them think, don’t open up their head, rip out their brain, and fill it with “facts.”

cavum:

stmwtd (by woodcum)

… And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. To quote from Whitman, “O me! O life!… of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless… of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life?” Answer. That you are here - that life exists, and identity; that the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. That the powerful play *goes on* and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?