Sublime

What a remarkable figure, no? A crippled slave who acquires an education, becomes a free man, establishes his own school, is exiled by one emperor but is on friendly terms with another, and selflessly helps a young child near the end of a simple life that will continue until the very ripe age, especially for the time, of eighty. Oh, and most import

I’d create a course that I’d call Remedial Worldly Wisdom that would, among other useful things, include a fair amount of properly taught psychology. And it might last three weeks or a month. I think you could create a course that was so interesting, with pithy examples and powerful examples and powerful principles, that it would be a total circus.

She felt she would be failing in her duties if she didn’t also attempt to influence the tempo at which her students worked, helping them slow down to the speed that art demands. ‘They needed someone to give them permission to spend this kind of time on anything,’ she said. ‘Somebody had to give them a different set of rules and constraints than the

Intel was Grove’s laboratory for management innovation. He loved to teach, and the company reaped the benefits.fn2 A few days after getting hired, I received a coveted invitation to Intel’s Organization, Philosophy, and Economics course, known as iOPEC, a seminar on Intel strategy and operations. Resident professor: Dr. Andy Grove.

doing grunt work for them in exchange for private lessons.

Teaching is not entertainment, but it is unlikely to be successful unless it is entertaining (the more respectable word would be interesting).

good teacher is one who continues to learn along with the students.