Steve Denning famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Administrators need to shift from being controllers to enablers, so as to liberate the energies and talents of the teachers.
-- Steve Denning

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Because we humans find stories such fascinating things, itâ€™s all too easy to get interested in the story for its own sake, and lose sight of the purpose for which we set out to use the story.
-- Steve Denning

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It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?
I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.
As a little girl, I didn't like stories about little girls. I liked stories about dragons and beasts and princes and princesses and fear and terror and the Four Musketeers and almost anything other than nice little girls making moral decisions about whether to tell the teacher about what the other little girl did or did not do.
If you would be a better teacher, teach by the spirit. That is the thing that gives strength and power, meaning and life, to our otherwise weak efforts... remember, you cannot give away that which you do not possess. Study the life of the master. You do not have to have a college degree to be an efficient teacher. But you do have to become acquainted with the life and teachings of the master to be an effective teacher in the church.
It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.
Opportunity lives at the intersection of what people need tomorrow and can be just barely built today.
I am an instigator of the national energies.
In absolute terms, we may have to look at restricting the number of flights people take.
Dark energy is incredibly strange, but actually it makes sense to me that it went unnoticed, because dark energy has no effect on daily life, or even inside our solar system.
Well, filming in Hawaii, you know, is a blessing. It's one of the most beautiful places on this planet. It has a very mystic energy which informs you as an actor.

Steve Denning famous quotes

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