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=Welcome=
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=• The first practical step in any educational reform is to take it. = =• In education, failures are more important than successes. There is nothing so dismal as a success story = =• Teach on the verge of peril. = =• There are no more teachers. There is just a community of learners. = =• Do not design a philosophy of education for others. Design one for yourself. A few others may wish to share it with you. = =• For the 5-year-old, art is life and life is art. For the 6-year-old, life is life and art is art. The first year in school is a watershed in the child's history: a trauma. = =• The old approach: Teacher has information; student has empty head. Teacher's objective: to push information into student's empty head. Observation: at outset teacher is a fathead; at conclusion student is a fathead. = =• On the contrary a class should be an hour of a thousand discoveries. For this to happen, the teacher and the student should first discover one another. = =<span class="Bullet" style="background-color: #f7f6f6; font-family: HelveticaNeue,'Helvetica Neue',Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">• <span style="background-color: #f7f6f6; font-family: HelveticaNeue,'Helvetica Neue',Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Why is it that the only people who never matriculate from their own courses are teachers? = =<span class="Bullet" style="background-color: #f7f6f6; font-family: HelveticaNeue,'Helvetica Neue',Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">• <span style="background-color: #f7f6f6; font-family: HelveticaNeue,'Helvetica Neue',Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Always teach provisionally: only God knows for sure. =
 * R. Murray Schafer's Ten Maxims**