Quotes About Flexibility

A highly structured, prescriptive model of sheltering and scaffolding is not necessary for effectively educating English learners. In fact, mandating any approach that allows for little deviation is likely to be counterproductive. Just as explicit instruction encourages passive learning, tightly scripted lessons encourage passive teaching.

Any attempt to fix it in place, to say for instance "this is the final word on what Moby Dick means" robs myth of its creativity and turns its ossified corpse into dogma.

If you cannot teach a new dog old tricks then let him be and smile

Memorization as a skill will become useless, but the value of quickly learning will increase. We'll be in a world of abundant information and what you'll need to know is how to use it.

Once he let go of thinking about things in such a black-and-white manner, he was able to start seeing his own thoughts and conscience as things he could mentally manipulate. That was when he started making progress.

Trust and belief are two prime considerations. You must not allow yourself to be opinionated.

Intelligence normally entails two interrelated but somewhat different components. The first involves effective adaptation to an environment.

No son las especies más fuertes ni las más inteligentes las que sobreviven, sino las que saben dar una respuesta mejor al cambio. CHARLES DARWIN

The human brain loves exercise.

The most useless are those who never change through the years.

In framing a system which we wish to last for ages, we shd. not lose sight of the changes which ages will produce. [James Madison in the U.S. Constitutional Convention, June 26, 1787. The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787, ed. Max Farrand (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1966), 1:422.]

When things go awry, if they are mostly an inconvenience to you or a threat to your ego, instead of getting furious, can you laugh? Sometimes the even the best-laid plans, the most carefully planned events can turn out quite differently than planned.

Whatever he believed, he believed. It didn't matter to him whether it was really true or not. He just changed the truth till it fit him. He was a real white man.

So the verse means, "Do not let the age in which you live force you into its scheme of thinking and behaving.

Keep an open mind, but no so open that your brains fall out

Infinite players, on the other hand, continue their play in the expectation of being surprised. If surprise is no longer possible, all play ceases.

Our social existence has, therefore, an inescapably fluid character. This is not to say that we live in a fluid context, but that our lives are themselves fluid. As in the Zen image we are not the stones over which the stream of the world flows; we are the stream itself.

Infinite players have rules, they just do not forget that rules are an expression of agreement and not a requirement for agreement.

To be serious is to press for a specified conclusion. To be playful is to allow for possibility whatever the cost to oneself. There

Rashers, me heart, if it was raining soup, you'd have nothing but a fork.

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change. —ALBERT EINSTEIN

In the real world, few plans proceeded as planned. For a mission to succeed, a plan had to be liquid, capable of changing at a moment's notice.

At some point we need to be understood as more of a porous social platform than an impervious temple to culture.

There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.