They don’t prepare you for this in college or admit it in job interviews. The harsh reality is that if you are middle-aged, write computer code for a living, and earn a six-figure salary, you
…there is great wisdom in this read…
They don’t prepare you for this in college or admit it in job interviews. The harsh reality is that if you are middle-aged, write computer code for a living, and earn a six-figure salary, you
…there is great wisdom in this read…
How can we improve our ability to listen, discuss, and enjoy learning from others?
Twenty years of experience parenting children with special needs has taught me a simple truth. Every now and then we need to make “Big Bets”
The same pathways that help with physical pain seem to moderate existential distress.
Kids who were part of building an amazing inclusive soccer program, where special needs kids and typical kids play together…
These 5-8 year olds are now in college and continuing to include those with special needs in their lives. The San Jose State school newspaper told their story, and an amazing story it is…
My favorite moment from the National Championship Game…even though my Wolverines lost…I find inspiration in Trey Burkes rise!
Happy birthday, Robert Frost: Asked at his 80th birthday party (in 1954) about the most important thing he had learned about life, Robert Frost had this to say: “In three words, I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life. It goes on. In all the confusions of today, with all our troubles … with politicians and people slinging the word fear around, all of us become discouraged … tempted to say this is the end, the finish. But life — it goes on. It always has. It always will. Don’t forget that.”
Frost’s comments were published in the L.A. Times on Sept. 5, 1954. You can read them in full here (the slider at the top right of the page allows you to zoom).
via my old friend Albus Dumbledore - Funny…much of education is about developing our abilities. So little time is spent teaching us how to make choices.
The best educated are those who learn how to make right choices about the use these abilities.
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