Yet in actual schools, curiosity is drastically underappreciated.
http://kylenebeers.com/blog/2012/08/20/why-i-hated-merediths-first-grade-teacher-an-ope... - 0 views
-
When my first born headed off to first grade, 21 years ago, she held my hand as we walked down the hallway of Will Rogers Elementary School in the Houston Independent School District. We walked into Ms. Miner's room and Meredith's steps grew more hesitant. This wasn't the University of Houston Child Care Center, the place she had gone for years while I was a doctoral student at UH. This place looked different - bigger, more official. There were big-kid desks pushed together in clusters. And though there were centers, they were not the dress-up center or the cooking center or nap center or water play center of the Child Care Center.
Curiosity Is a Unique Marker of Academic Success - The Atlantic - 0 views
-
-
The power of curiosity to contribute not only to high achievement, but also to a fulfilling existence, cannot be emphasized enough.
-
When Orville Wright, of the Wright brothers fame, was told by a friend that he and his brother would always be an example of how far someone can go in life with no special advantages, he emphatically responded, “to say we had no special advantages … the greatest thing in our favor was growing up in a family where there was always much encouragement to intellectual curiosity.”
- ...11 more annotations...
1 - 4 of 4
Showing 20▼ items per page