Blog Post 7

"When you're screwing up and nobody is saying anything to you anymore that means they gave up." This is HUGE for teachers! Teachers should never give up on their students; although, children may thing you're being tough, they will thank you for it one day when it all pays off. I also loved his term "head fake" learning. It shows that there is so much more to a lesson than what meets the eye which is so true. Not only is a teacher teaching books and facts, many life lessons are learned in the classroom. It is important for a teacher to remember that.

"The brick walls are there for a reason: they let us prove how badly we want things." His lecture shows how important perseverance truly is. He shows the importance of this with not only goals but people too. He is a living example of how working hard and waiting for the right time that goals can be achieved. He accomplished all his childhood goals and appeared to die happy. His last lecture was inspirational to those who feel their goals couldn't be achieved.

"Two ways of saying I don't know: a good way and a bad way" This is an extremely important to understand for people wanting to be teachers. Negativity can only crush the ideas of students. This also reinforces that teachers should be continual learners. A teacher shouldn't automatically reject new ideas on the only basis of not knowing. It is more important to be open-minded and attempt to learn with a positive attitude.

"Enabling the childhood dreams of others" He loved being a professor so much because he was able to just that. He even designed an entire class based on attempting to achieve childhood dreams through virtual reality. He also discovered that the students surpassed all his expectations. This is when he realized that you cannot "set a bar" for the students to reach. Instead it is important to let them keep growing with no limits. This only causes the students to discover more of what we would have never known. This is the only way to improve. "Good enough" is never an option.