The book, The Art of Possibility has a lot to say about life in general and how we approach it. I can definitely see how these ideals can be incorporated and used in an educational setting as well. I think it is overly important that everyone sees possibilities instead of barriers. Think of all of the issues that are around us that we wish we could do something about and this sort of learned helplessness that society is in that feels like there’s nothing one person can really do to make changes, so why try? This book is telling us all to try. To put aside the measurements and designs of a society that would hold us back by regimenting and exacting how and what can be done. Instead, we need to step in and say, anything can be done.
With this in mind, the idea of giving yourself an A means that there is no longer a measure of your success over your head and you can be free to test yourself, challenge yourself, and surprise yourself. It is not about the destination, but the journey as said before. It’s time to move beyond the expectations of a grade for any area in which you are learning and accept the real-life consequences and effects as the whole sum of what you are learning and to put value in that.
SATURDAY, APRIL 10, 2010
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GARY MILTON
I agree and would add to what you have said by saying that some of life greatest lesson can only be learn through failure or at least what the world would label as failure. I think it is time to change what we label as failure. I have often told my students that the only person who fails is the person who refuses to try. Because if you refuse to try you have denied yourself the chance to success and more importantly to learn. We must begin to reach past what we know is true to what we think could be true. We need to dare to dream and then reach for that dream with the expectation that we have in us what it takes to make that dream come true.
SUNDAY, APRIL 11, 2010 - 05:37 PM
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