"I learned that when something just has to be said to move the discussion along, or broaden it or deepen it, if I can just keep my mouth shut for five minutes a student will say it. So for me a lot of teaching is about keeping my mouth shut."

-- Greil Marcus

#Moving Quotes #Teaching Quotes #Mouths Quotes

“When common sense sees a puzzling phenomenon it looks for a causal agent. When it sees organization it looks for an organizer. This works amazingly well for purposes ranging from the diagnosis of diseases to the creation of governments. But it cannot account for emergence ... the appearance of complex phenomena not predictable from the basic elements and processes alone.”

Source : Carl Bereiter (2005). “Education and Mind in the Knowledge Age”, p.200, Routledge
“But one sound always rose above the clamor of busy life and, no matter how much of a tintinnabulation, was never confused and, fora moment lifted everything into an ordered sphere: that of the bells.”
“Being an insomniac only slows me down. I try not to write at night, as I'm concerned that this will affect the quality.”
“DoveWing (talking to LoinBlaze): You got somthing wrong, what you said to ToadStep. You are the hero.”
“Kim Kardashian is single again. Hey, great. Maybe that will give the NBA players something to do during the lockout.”
“I'm not really sure which parts of myself are real and which parts are things I've gotten from books.”
“No one can obtain felicity by pursuit. This explains why one of the elements of being happy is the feeling that a debt of gratitude is owed, a debt impossible to pay. Now, we do not owe gratitude to ourselves. To be conscious of gratitude is to acknowledge a gift.”
“We have a huge game coming up in semi-finals. Just studying Finland or the Americans, whoever we're playing. Just moving forward, working hard in practice and making sure we stay sharp.”

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