Reflecting on Reflecting

Rock on John Dewey AND Edutopia....two of my favorites on a fav topic. Look for this quote in EDU 221 coming soon. :-)

Albert Einstein on Asking Good Questions

This goes along with creativity, obviously, but I'm really intrigued by folks who ask good questions and pursue them over an extended period of time. Albert Einstein obviously knew the power of asking good questions when he said,

"To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science."

"I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious."

And you ask really good questions, Albert!

Thank you, Mother and Daddy!

"Travel is the death of prejudice."
~Samuel Clemens

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I'm pretty sure that wasn't the main motivation, but my parents felt like travel was one of the most important things we could do as a family and they instilled a love of travel in both my sister and me. We've both been to all 50 states (several times for most of them). Together we've been to six European countries and on other journeys, we've both been to others (she more than I, but I'll catch up some day). Our parents have been to even more than that and just returned from a 32-day cruise down the Asian coast. There's so much to learn when you travel, but obviously, there's so much more to gain.

Einstein on problem solving (but not necessarily mathematical problems)

"The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them."
---Albert Einstein

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This is the email signature of:
Dr Paul J Gies
Chair, or rather, "Chair,"
Dept. of Math & Computer Science

He's such a liberal arts thinker which is so fabulous but sometimes rare in math and science folks.

I read this and think of examples: NCLB is a problem that exists in the world today and truly there's no one in the Bush administration that can "solve" it . . . not only because they don't even understand that it's a problem but for the reasons that Einstein states, that level of thinking can't even comprehend how to undo the damage that's been done.