Linda Lantieri famous quotes

We found out that the young people who had a substantial number of lessons in the Resolving Conflict Creatively Curriculum ... not only did better in terms of people skills, that they managed their emotions, they were less violent and more caring, but they actually did better on their academic achievement tests.
-- Linda Lantieri

#Caring #Skills #Numbers

We're finally learning that it is not an either-or situation ... Feelings and learning and emotion are all very integral to each other.
-- Linda Lantieri

#Feelings #Emotion #Resolution

The biggest dilemma in education today is the differing visions of what an educated person means. To do well on tests is often more important than helping young people really be prepared to deal with the tests of life.
-- Linda Lantieri

#Education #Mean #People

Emotional intelligence in the work that we do, in the Resolving Conflict Creatively Program, is about equipping young people with the kinds of skills they need to both identify and manage their emotions, to communicate those emotions effectively, and to resolve conflict nonviolently. So it's a whole set of skills and competencies that, for us, fall under the umbrella of emotional intelligence.
-- Linda Lantieri

#Fall #Emotional #Skills

I don't think avoiding conflict is not caring. ~Shin

Take care of yourself, be healthy, and always believe you can be successful in anything you truly want

How a mother comes to love her child, her caring at all for this thing that's made her heavy, lopsided and slow, this thing that made her wish she were dead ... that's the miracle.

The art of decoration requires the most sophisticated and self-indulgent skills. Its aim has always been to sate the senses as gloriously as possible. ... ornament is not only a source of sensuous pleasure; it supplies a necessary kind of magic to people and places that lack it. More than just a dread of empty spaces has led to the urge to decorate; it is the fear of empty selves.

At around 19 I realized that I really didn't have any skills other than making people laugh, so I should probably pursue it full-time.

What is wisdom? It is the skill to achieve the perfect means by the perfect ends

Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books.

The formulation of the problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill.

Food is a subject of conversation more spiritually refreshing even than the weather, for the number of possible remarks about the weather is limited, whereas of food you can talk on and on and on.

A mathematician's reputation rests on the number of bad proofs he has given.