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Quote of the Day

February 7, 2006 By Will Richardson

Maybe instead of working on our weaknesses, we should be enhancing and exploiting our strengths? What if the price for working on weakness (and who even decides what is and isn’t a “weakness”?) is less chance to be f’n amazing? —Kathy Sierra

And maybe instead of standardizing mediocrity by making sure all of our kids can pass the same test, as educators we ought to think about ways to enhance their unique strengths so they can all achieve their individual amazingness.

Filed Under: General, On My Mind

Comments

  1. Andy Carvin says

    February 8, 2006 at 5:27 am

    I know this has been said already, but wow…. This had to be a really tough decision, but I know you’ll make the most of it. Your best blogging days are ahead of you!

    mazel tov,
    andy

  2. Bill Parsons says

    February 9, 2006 at 10:29 am

    This is exactly what Howard Gardner is talking about when he says:

    “Only if we expand and reformulate our view of what counts as human intellect will we
    be able to devise more appropriate ways of assessing it and more effective ways of
    educating it.”
    -Howard Gardner

    Great post. Thanks.

  3. Bill Parsons says

    February 9, 2006 at 10:30 am

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