What the Next Administration Can Do to Address the Skills Sh

Geoffrey Canada interviewed by Julian Bond: Explorations in Black Leade...

Using Assessment to Improve Instruction

Bennington president Liz Coleman delivers a call-to-arms for radical reform in higher education. Bucking the trend to push students toward increasingly narrow areas of study, she proposes a truly cross-disciplinary education -- one that dynamically combines all areas of study to address the great problems of our day.

Patrick Awuah on educating leaders | Video on TED.com

Patrick Awuah makes the case that a liberal arts education is critical to forming true leaders.

Education scientist Sugata Mitra tackles one of the greatest problems of education -- the best teachers and schools don't exist where they're needed most. In a series of real-life experiments from New Delhi to South Africa to Italy, he gave kids self-supervised access to the web and saw results that could revolutionize how we think about teaching.

Values

Break the mentality of utility when viewing your values and principles. They are not to be used just to open up once inaccessible doors or to take us to places we never been before. They are not a set of cars keys, but rather a means for us to remain true to who we are. Creating for us a sense of peace.

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Living

The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.

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Get Involved

If every person with moral reservations about power refused to exercise it, power would not cease to exist. Rather, it would be exercised only by those people who lack moral reservations about it. The result would be more abuses of power than exist today, and those who refused to exercise power on moral grounds would be partially responsible. Thus, the refusal to exercise power because of its corrupting potential is itself an unethical exercise of power.

 

 

Frances C. Fowler

Day

Enjoying the day with family.

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The Basic Unit

The basic unit of goal attainment is awareness. Subjective and objective worlds, the realms of dreams and reality needs to be explored. A constant relationship with life must be established for one to harvest potential.

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Breaking the Mold

We do not have to be anything. The limiting walls of self-concept wall us off from true engagement with the world. Our urge is to preserve notions of self, the very urge that constrain us to pre-programmed patterns of behavior and ways of being. People and events are not viewed based on their own merit, but rather as accomplices in our charades of identity and self-preservation. The consequences of this limiting behavior are uncomfortable states of one-dimensional inauthentic interactions.

 

 

Servant Leadership

Servant leadership is built on the solid foundation of transformation, seeking to evolve the layperson into a leader as well. A servant leader is a leader whom operates guided by an internal compass of ethical judgment. Greenleaf spoke of servant leaders as being characterized by virtuous distinction. “A servant leader’s ability to lead with integrity depends on his or her skills for withdrawal and action, listening and persuasion, practical goal setting and intuitive prescience. The focus is on goals, success, learning, and assisting”. (Cunningham, Cordeiro ,1999,pg.196).

Excerpt: Way of the E-lightened Mind

“...I feel that the period will sooner or later arrive when I must abandon life and reason together, in some struggle with the grim phantasm, FEAR.”
-Poe

Fear is the foe of a thousand lives and shapes for it
manifests in our lives in so many expected and unexpected
ways. The greatest accomplishments the world has ever
seen are the products of people who have conquered their
fears. Within all endeavors, a decisive moment arises, a
moment when a person must come face to face with their
deepest fears.
 
Excerpt: 4 Steps to Conquer

Concentrate

The first law of success...is concentration: to bend all the energies to one point, and to go directly to that point, looking neither to the right nor to the left.

- William Matthews

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Point to ponder

Does the type of encouragement desired vary from a person who is a high achiever and a person who is not?

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With Love

Accomplishments of note can only be attained with Love.

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Plan and Be Fearless

Plan your vision and execute. Are roadblocks really roadblocks? Or perhaps it is fear in disguise? Fear clouds judgement and causes one to base actions on false premises.

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D’Amato on Fear

CUS D’AMATO TALKS ABOUT FEAR
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Cus with Tyson in the 80s


Fighters are the most exposed athletes in the world. During a fight, the crowd observes every twitch and movement. Still, spectators rarely see fear in a quality fighter. “That,” says D’Amato, “is because the fighter has mastered his emotions to the extent that he can conceal and control them.”

But whatever a fighter says, the fear is there. It never goes away. He just learns to live with it. “And the truth is,” D’Amato continues, “fear is an aspect to a fighter. It makes him move faster, be quicker and more alert.

Heroes and cowards feel exactly the same fear. Heroes just react to it differently. On the morning of a fight, a boxer wakes up and says, ‘How can I fight? I didn’t sleep at all last night.’ What he has to realize is, the other guy didn’t sleep either. Later, as the fighter walks toward the ring, his feet want to walk in the opposite direction. He’s asking himself how he got into this mess. He climbs the stairs into the ring, and it’s like going to the guillotine.

Maybe he looks at the other fighter, and sees by the way he’s loosening up that his opponent is experienced, strong, very confident. Then when the opponent takes off his robe, he’s got big bulging muscles. What the fighter has to realize,” concludes D’Amato, “is that he’s got exactly the same effect on his opponent, only he doesn’t know it. And when the bell rings, instead of facing a monster built up by the imagination, he’s simply up against another fighter.”

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Generous

Be generous with your practice. Do not skimp on the investment you make into anything you classify as "your craft". Generosity is the root of competency and prosperity.

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