#wideopenminds

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Your significance will remain forever obscure to you, but you may assume that you are fulfilling your role if you apply yourself to converting your experiences to the highest advantage of others.

Lloyd Steven Sieden. Buckminster Fuller's Universe: His Life and Work. New York: Basic Books, 1989. pp. 87-88.

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A brilliant talk by Sir Ken Robinson about the need to change how we think about education and schooling.

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A good teacher will always...

…know your name

…get to class early to be ready for you

…prepare the lesson in advance because they reckon it's important

…leave their bad mood outside the classrom because they have nothing to do with you

…be patient and kind

…ask you questions and oblige you to think for yourself even when they know it would be way quicker to tell you the answer

…be attentive to everything you do in class even if they pretend not to see you

…communicate their expectations to you and be open to renegotiating them in response to your expectations

…be fair

…listen to your ideas because they know you matter

- Dr A. J. Blair Vasconcelos, from Being in Brazil.