Sublime

Mazur says that the person who knows best what a student is struggling with in assimilating new concepts is not the professor, it’s another student.

The noted neurologist and author Oliver Sacks had this to say about originality, in his essay “Prodigies” from the book An Anthropologist on Mars: Creativity, as usually understood, entails not only a “what,” a talent, but a “who”—strong personal characteristics, a strong identity, personal sensibility, a personal style, which flow into the talent,

content that matters more than the format.

Henry Jenkins

Teachers are thought of as messengers for whatever standardized curriculum the school district spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on. Believing that the magic is in the material, not in the teacher. Efficiency and control have replaced ingenuity and empowerment.

ConnectED,

Language is a tool for self-expression and must never become a decorative end of its own.

Often, the “expression” that takes place in a game does little to achieve the goals of the game.

Second, the greater the interconnectedness among individuals—among learners and their teachers over generations—