Quotes

I Love A Great Quote

If you’re taking the SAT tomorrow, don’t forget these wise words:

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

– Winston Churchill

 

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Inspiration Friday

 

I love a good quote.

“We are what we repeatedly do.  Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.”      –Aristotle

 

“The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance – it is the illusion of knowledge. ”    

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Understanding is Remembering in Disguise

 

If you’re anything like me…..

….E V E R Y T H I N G takes way longer than you think it will.

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The Best Evidence Is Frequently Ignored

From Inside Higher Ed about a new book called Uneducated Guesses:

Then Wainer examined four colleges that let students submit SAT or ACT scores, and for which first-year grades were also available: Barnard and Colby Colleges, Carnegie Mellon University

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How the Brain Works


I’m reading a book about memory, called Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything by Joshua Foer, and I’ve come upon a section about the work of Dr. Ericsson:

“What separates experts from the rest

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When parents asked me when a student should begin preparing for admissions tests, I always answered, “in kindergarten.”

-Stanley Kaplan

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