A clever fellow: Scott H. Young, independent spirit. I want to sit with this guy someday and learn something new

http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/mit-challenge/

Here are some extracts from his blog.

If you were in high school, would you contact this guy if your teacher (me) said, "I'll exempt you from all assignments for the next two weeks if you contact the fellow, learn something interesting to you, and then report back to us about what yu learned from Scott."  Would you choose several email exchanges with Scott, or would you do a chapter of math homework?

Go ahead, contact him...











I hope he will contact me someday and become a mentor for some of my students.

"Why do we experience seasons?" and "What causes the phases of the moon?" (the video about the 23 Harvard graduates)

More than twenty-five years ago, 23 Harvard graduates were asked, "Why do we experience seasons?"  and "What causes the phases of the moon?"   

The video is free.

http://www.learner.org/resources/series28.html   The video was produced in 1987

How to persist -- what words should be on walls in schools?

The brain doesn't know the difference between something vividly imagined and the actual experience.

Dr. Joe Pace, The Pacific Institute

(954) 926-5668 drjpace@msn.com

We tend to move toward whatever we think about.

The foundation of all human action is human thought.

We rewire the brain by thinking about something over and over.

We change the wiring by replacing pictures and replaying those new mental images over and over.

Schools should have a cap and gown and a sample diploma in a special room. Every student can imagine putting on the gown and receiving that diploma -- and then a photo is taken. What do I look like in that moment? What do I feel in that moment? What does it feel like to be a graduate? The photo goes home and the student looks at the photo again and again.

You can't direct the wind, but you can adjust the sails.

from a presenation at Summer Conference organized by Nova.edu