I encourage students to pursue an idea far enough so they can see what the cliches and stereotypes are. Only then do they begin to hit pay dirt.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It's great to be able to just go with an idea and not have 10 people in a room telling me why I can't write in a huge mud slide at a school function with 50 kindergartners running around.
Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America.
I think what any student adds is the ideas they bring.
That is still the case in this country for too many students, the soft bigotry of low expectations. If you don't expect them to learn, if you don't expect them to succeed - then it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
If you give people literacy, bad ideas can be attacked and experiments tried, and lessons will accumulate.
We need to encourage innovative ideas that give parents better alternatives to prepare children for higher education and for the jobs of the future.
I strongly believe that more money needs to be spent in the classroom.
Students need to learn how to think critically, how to argue opposing ideas. It is important for them to learn how to think. You can always cook.
In a rising market, enough of your bad ideas will pay off so that you'll never learn that you should have fewer ideas.
My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.