BrainBuilders Gymnasium

11/12/2010

If, instead of identifying ourselves with the work, we feel that the soul of the workman streams through us, we shall find the peace of the morning dwelling first in our hearts, and the fathomless powers of gravity and chemistry, and, over them, of life, pre-existing within us in their highest form. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

10/19/2010

"Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death." -Albert Einstein (who else?)

09/07/2010

another gem from the amazing TED site -

TED Talks 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 re...

09/05/2010

A healthy sense of wonder and creativity is essential to learning and brain growth

09/05/2010

"What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child." --George Bernard Shaw