Keep them coming, these are great, thank you all! The Tao of Pooh is incredible; 'we have spelling' I saw yesterday in our archives and it certainly struck me too - ouch indeed! Questioning is brilliant - Pauline, that's nice and positive, and might just be the one! It certainly sums up what I try to do in my every encounter. Though Einstein should probably not be left our either, and I do feel that our 'lack of discipline' helps us truly facilitate rather than deliver, and wonder how this can be a helpful model 'in the disciplines' too - are there any papers on exactly this, ld-style support of learning instead of content delivery/knowledge transfer? Sally Brown has taken up this cry, there must be many others I'm ignorant of? (We have spelling - not even grammar ;-))
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From: learning development in higher education network [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Rooney, Steve G.
Sent: 20 October 2011 09:36
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Subject: Re: Summing up LD work
My colleague, Stu Johnson, put me onto this a while ago:
".the corporal and Colonel Korn both agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything." Joseph Heller, Catch 22 (New York, 1961)
Been using it ever since.
Steve
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From: learning development in higher education network [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Johnson, Sarah
Sent: 20 October 2011 07:42
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Subject: Re: Summing up LD work
Hi Eloise,
How about this from the greatest philosopher ever:
"You can't always sit in your corner of the forest and wait for people to come to you... you have to go to them sometimes."
Winnie the Pooh
Kind regards,
Sarah
Sarah Johnson | Learning and Teaching Officer | Learning Development Team | Nottingham Trent University | 0115 848 8208 | [log in to unmask] | www.ntu.ac.uk/studentmentors
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From: learning development in higher education network [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Eloise Sentito
Sent: 19 October 2011 16:07
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Subject: Summing up LD work
Hi all,
We were thinking of making explicit something of our theoretical underpinnings in our latest publicity so I'm looking for a couple of inspirational quotes by great names and/or great Learning Developers (etc.) that capture the essence of our work. I'm about to look at the LDHEN blog because last year's thread where we describe what we do might throw up the right sort of thing, as well as some of the keynote speakers we've had. I like Ghandi's 'Live as if you were to die tomorrow; learn as if you were to live forever', and of course Einstein's 'standing on the shoulders of giants' is great in terms of criticality, referencing etc., but something less known, more specific and less cinematic might be better. Any ideas, especially actual or paraphrased quotes and names, would be very welcome!
Thanks!
Eloïse
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