As Gloria Steinem observed, “Whoever has power takes over the noun—and the norm—while the less powerful get an adjective.”

“Schools were built to create an efficient transfer of knowledge from one generation to the next, and that purpose is no longer valid. School communities that truly understand this are meeting at school, but learning in the world.”
― #EdJourney: A Roadmap to the Future of Education
― #EdJourney: A Roadmap to the Future of Education
“Reaction without analysis and understanding will almost always result in an inadequate solution.”
― The Falconer
― The Falconer
“People who go looking for interesting problems are people who create and invent and discover things.”
― The Falconer
― The Falconer

“The upshot of all this is that we live in a universe whose age we can't quite compute, surrounded by stars whose distances we don't altogether know, filled with matter we can't identify, operating in conformance with physical laws whose properties we don’t truly understand.”
― A Short History of Nearly Everything
― A Short History of Nearly Everything
“Thinking of stuff is not innovation. Tinkering with stuff is not innovation. Even inventing stuff is not innovation. Innovation instead, when it’s done right, makes us go “wow, of course, why didn’t I think of that?” It creates complete experiences that we want to engage in. It eliminates inconveniences and hassles and improves our overall experiences. At its most dramatic, it creates entire categories of offerings, so new that we find it hard to name them at first.”
― #EdJourney: A Roadmap to the Future of Education
― #EdJourney: A Roadmap to the Future of Education

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