10/11/2017
Bill Gates and Steve Jobs — seldom let their kids play with the very products they helped create.
"What is it these wealthy tech executives know about their own products that their consumers don't?" the authors wrote. The answer, according to a growing body of evidence, is the addictive power of digital technology.
Why Gates and Jobs shielded their kids from tech
Interviews with Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and other tech elites consistently reveal that Silicon Valley parents are strict about technology use.
30/05/2017
"The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you." - B.B. King
22/05/2017
"All men/women by nature desire to know." - Aristotle
15/05/2017
"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea." - Antoine de St. Exupery
08/05/2017
"The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions." - Anthony Jay
01/05/2017
"It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this, it goes to wrack and ruin without fail. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty." - Albert Einstein
18/04/2017
The shift in is...teaching children how to learn.
07/04/2014
“You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him or her to learn by creating curiosity, he or she will continue the learning process as long as he or she lives.”
- Clay P. Bedford