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Peter Henschel … On Learning

Filed Under: Inspiration · May 4, 2015 · Leave a Comment ·

Learning is fundamentally social. Learning is really a matter of changing identity, not just acquiring knowledge. That knowledge is integrated in the life of communities. When people develop and share values, perspectives, and ways of doing things, they create a community of practice. The challenge to all of us in education, on behalf of students and organizations, is to create, negotiate, nurture, and sustain the communities of practice in which effective learning takes place.

(Peter Henschel, 1949-2002)

The Writing Spirit

Filed Under: Inspiration, Reflections · July 13, 2012 · Leave a Comment ·

Feather Pen with WordsThis is a wondefully inspirational video about the spirit of writing, with tips and commentary from some of the world’s well known writers and best known philosophers. They share with us not only advice about writing – but sound advice about life itself!

For example, Sir Ken Robinson tells us “your best insurance for the future is to really think hard about the things you’d like to do and the life you would like to lead now.” Or, as Gary Zukav says “your life is a co-creative endeavour, but you make the choices.”

What is Success?

Filed Under: Reflections · February 27, 2012 · Leave a Comment ·

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson

In a recent post for our BJ Seminars International blog, The Sky is Falling, I finished with a quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson.

This reminded me of another piece, attributed to Emerson, entitled “Success”. I remember being inspired by it many years ago, so searched for it again. You may also have come across it in your travels:

To laugh often and much;
To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children;
To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends;
To appreciate beauty,
To find the best in others,
To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child,
A garden patch or a redeemed social condition;
To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.

But you may imagine my surprise, when searching on the web for these words, to learn that Emerson is not in fact the author!

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Books I’ve Read

Sue's bookshelf: read

The Chase
3 of 5 stars
The Chase
by Janet Evanovich
The Heist
3 of 5 stars
The Heist
by Janet Evanovich
Vanish in Plain Sight
3 of 5 stars
Vanish in Plain Sight
by Marta Perry
Eat Me
4 of 5 stars
Eat Me
by Agnès Desarthe
Odd One Out
3 of 5 stars
Odd One Out
by Monica McInerney

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