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If you are inspired, ambitious, and motivated, acquiring good habits is easy: follow the advice on this web site, and in my book. But if you lack inspiration, ambition, and motivation, you are unlikely to make the effort needed to acquire good habits. What to do? Talk to people who seem to be inspired, [...] The way in which we experience and interpret the world obviously depends very much indeed on the kind of ideas that fill our minds. If they are mainly small, weak, superficial, and incoherent, life will appear insipid, uninteresting, petty and chaotic. It is difficult to bear the resultant feeling of emptiness, and the vacuum [...] As I have written before, here and here, a teacher’s first job is to inspire students to learn. Konrad Glogowski has written along similar lines about ‘passion-based learning’, and my Grade 8 students read his article and added their own thoughts on their class blog. Reading their posts, I find some common threads about [...] What do students need to be successful in school? What do people need to be good learners, whether in school or on their own? They need three things. Reading Anyone can be a reader, and everyone benefits from reading. Good Habits Although schools expect students to have good habits, they rarely take the time [...] Anyone can build better habits. Anyone can master the habits that lead to success in school. But what will motivate a student to work hard and build good habits? Inspiration. If you are uninspired, the first job is to start dreaming. Who do you want to be? Where do you want to go? Once [...] Please add your own memorable quotations about habits. For my starters, see the comments. |
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