I believe the greatest motivator in learning is passion. Whether you love or whether you hate, you will be inspired to discover.
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We all know very young children that ask "why?" as if they were Jeremy Paxman grilling a politician on Newsnight, but why don't we hear more older children and adults asking the same question?
Here's a quote that I've been thinking about lately. I feel that being curious about the world and using our critical thinking skills can bring so much more value to a learner than simply knowing the right answer on a test.
"Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn" - a quote often misattributed to Benjamin Franklin - is an ancient Chinese proverb as relevant today as it was two thousand years ago.
When I was in Year 2, my teacher - the brilliant Mrs Walker - told me a fib that chilled me to the bone.
The Government has been hacking back creativity like a logger with a chainsaw. Yet, the world needs its artists, poets and musicians to add colour and humanity in an otherwise formulaic world.
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I saw him wincing as he wrote his first line of ideas. "Does it hurt when you write?" I asked. "Of course," Sam replied. He believed that handwriting was a painful activity they made you do at school.
