Will Richardson famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

We don't need school to be better, we need schools to be really, really different.
-- Will Richardson

#School #Different #Needs
This is a very challenging moment for educators. Our children are headed for a much more networked existence, one that allows for learning to occur 24, 7, 365, one that renders physical space much less important for learning, one that will challenge the relevance of classrooms as currently envisioned, and one that challenges our roles as teachers and adult learners.
-- Will Richardson

#Teacher #Children #Space
We as educators need to reconsider our roles in students' lives, to think of ourselves as connectors first and content experts second.
-- Will Richardson

#Teaching #Thinking #Roles
We have to stop delivering the curriculum to kids. We have to start discovering it with them.
-- Will Richardson

#Kids #Curriculum #Discovering
School is the path, not the point.
-- Will Richardson

#School #Path

Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.
I developed a mania for Fitzgerald - by the time I'd graduated from high school I'd read everything he'd written. I started with 'The Great Gatsby' and moved on to 'Tender Is the Night,' which just swept me away. Then I read 'This Side of Paradise,' his novel about Princeton - I literally slept with that book under my pillow for two years.
Perhaps worse still is what liberal societies might do to themselves in the face of this new and different threat [of terrorism]. They begin, by small but dangerous increments, to cease to be as liberal as they once were. They begin to restrict their own hard-won rights and freedoms as a protection against the crminial minority who attempt (and as we thus see, by forcing liberty to commit suidcide, succed in doing) to terrorise society.
I've been recognized very seldom. I think I just look different in person than I do as the character.
I'm constantly trying to find something that's different from me, whereas some actors do the same thing, again and again. That's not for me.
It's the presence of others who are smarter, kinder, wiser, and different from you that enables you to evolve. Those are the people to surround yourself with at all times.
What we need now for quickening is not so much money and wisdom as the spirit of supplication. Pray for yourself until the new life is infused. When that new life comes, it will lead you to pray for others.
I cannot bear not to know the end of a tale. I will read the most trivial things â€“ once commenced â€“ only out of a feverish greed to be able to swallow the ending â€“ sweet or sour â€“ and to be done with what I need never have embarked on. Are you in my case? Or are you a more discriminating reader? Do you lay aside the unprofitable?
I don't want to abandon one work for the other, and I don't think I need to sacrifice anything to put my all into either one of them.
You know, Democratic and Republican administrations alike have supported individuals and regimes that have slaughtered millions across the globe. And they need to be held accountable for that.

Will Richardson famous quotes

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