tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8438349.post114395682970149325..comments2024-03-28T00:28:06.035+13:00Comments on leading and learning: Ways of exploring a bridgeBruce Hammondshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07031065790535111400noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8438349.post-1144515005272437842006-04-09T04:50:00.000+12:002006-04-09T04:50:00.000+12:00This kind of creative teaching - based on a belief...This kind of creative teaching - based on a belief in the intrinsic ability of children to learn from their experiences, is sadly lacking today. Teachers are just to busy proving they are teaching to really value the 'voices', or to capitalize on the passions, of their students.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8438349.post-1144410811318471262006-04-07T23:53:00.000+12:002006-04-07T23:53:00.000+12:00Wow! -great stuff!Wow! -great stuff!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8438349.post-1144370751743425322006-04-07T12:45:00.000+12:002006-04-07T12:45:00.000+12:00I like ths quote I received today.'I'm not going t...I like ths quote I received today.<BR/><BR/>'I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.' <BR/><BR/>Yogi Berra. Baseball player.Bruce Hammondshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07031065790535111400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8438349.post-1144365087298249182006-04-07T11:11:00.000+12:002006-04-07T11:11:00.000+12:00The ideas of Margaret Mahy( in your earlier 'blog'...The ideas of Margaret Mahy( in your earlier 'blog'), and your comments about exploring a bridge, answer what is missing in too many classrooms.<BR/><BR/>Years ago Sir Herbert Read wrote about the importance of education through the arts, and the primacy of the senses for expanding our consciousness.He aslo believed that people artistic creations contribute to the consciousness of others. He also believed that school programmes that dull the senses undercut the possibilities of the human mind.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com