Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

Be honest school leaders... You really don't have any idea what IT people are saying, do you?

“Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.”
― Richard P. Feynman

Alfred North Whitehead warned us about eduction that produces “’inert ideas’—that is to say, ideas that are merely received into the mind without being utilized, or tested, or thrown into fresh combinations."

When parental involvement in school is based on surveillance (e.g. track homework), it negatively affects performance. Yeah, sure aligns with my teaching experience.

Goldilocks has much to teach teachers—too much or too little isn’t good.

I turned out all right?

Did you? Did you really?

Its 2024... maybe update the business case studies in your textbooks so they don't refer to "small family-owned video rental stores" anymore.

Has anyone else noticed few problems have the complete information clear at the start? My textbooks taught me problems would be different.

Too much curriculum is taught from generalizations and abstractions.

Man of the truths we never bother to check and in fact false.

The less the separation between school and life (in language, problems, solutions, strategies), the more effective it is.

At the end of the rope, there's a little more rope
Most times.

James McMurtry has been the soundtrack of my life.

Fading. If you don't get past dependence on supports, they didn't work... is typical circumstances obviously.

Schools are unusual places to work, especially for those who like schedules and plans.

Observation is an excellent way to learn... if the curriculum is amendable.

We use language to internalize, thus our cognition moves from social phenomenon to psychological.

Yes... someone has been reading Vygotsky.

"Humans who can self-regulate are flexible and adaptable." Yeah, seems about right.

“Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.”
― Isaac Asimov

“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”
― Isaac Asimov

“The dogmatist within is always worse than the enemy without.”
― Stephen Jay Gould