Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

Any system designed around the average person is doomed to fail. - Todd Rose #education #teachergoals #teach #LeadershipDevelopment #LeadershipMatters #Management #designthinking #design

Talent is multidimensional and jagged.

I hate to tell you the number of principals in K-12 schools who have told me #libraries are not needed in their schools. I am always embarrassed for them and shocked they cannot be dissuaded.

Tradition is the prison where change is detained. -Israelmore Ayivor

Reading a chapter about how human brains and ethics. Seems a little surreal given the political climate and actions of the government.

#learning is hard #thinking is hard.

Denial of evidence and observation is a quaint, but idiotic, stance.

“Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one we have.” -Emil Chartier

“Data, data everywhere, but not a thought to think.” Just a reminder that we don’t want this for our children or ourselves. #data #education

“Ideas are integrating patterns that satisfy the mind.” -Theodore Roszak

“Learning to let go of an inadequate idea in favor of a better on is part of a good education.” -Theodore Roszak

For generations, “they” have been trying to replace good #teachers with #technology. You can replace a bad teacher with IT, but not a good teacher.

I've stopped giving feedback to work that was written by AI.

Totalitarian regimes contain fatal errors, but the leaders believe their own lies, so failure follows.

“genuine dissenting views can enhance group performance.” - Cass Sustein. I'm sorry to break the old news to leaders and happy to be among those who have provided dissenting views. #leadership #LeadershipDevelopment

“Confidence and error are a bad combination.” Few sentences ever written are more accurate.

"The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race. It would take off on its own, and re-design itself at an ever increasing rate... Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn't compete, and would be superseded❞ - Stephen Hawking

“The American framers’ largest innovation [was] their enthusiasm for disagreement and diversity, and their effort to accommodate and to structure their diversity”. - Cass Sunstein

Diversity leads to better decisions. If #highereducation is a place where we learn and practice better decisions, then more diverse campuses are better than less diverse campuses.

Sorry folks, but those are the facts.

“A man is judged by the company he keeps.” If you find yourself shunned, it may be because of this lesson we have taught for generations.