Friday 18 September 2009

What will the future hold for us?

This highly interesting presentation is not something to be frightened about, but to be aware of.

Nowadays and everytime more and more, multi-national companies are employing people without experience, that is, without memory. Why? Because they have never had before, the problems they have now. So they do not need conventional minds, but genious minds. And the genious mind consists of imagination, creativity and intuition. This is something a computer will never have.
We should make sure our students don't grow out of creativity, but develop the creativity they were born with. 

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Sunday 6 September 2009

Go for it!

I would like to share a very inspiring text I found in the book In Your Hands: NLP in ELT, which I really recommend to all teachers.
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Until one is committed, 
there is hesitancy,
the chance to draw back,
always ineffectivess.

Concerning all acts of initiative
(and creation)
there is one elementary truth,
the ignorance of which
kills countless ideas
and splendid plans -
that the moment
one definitely commits oneself,
then Providence moves too.

All sorts of things occur to help one
that would never otherwise have occurred ...

I have learned a deep respect
for one of Goethe's couplets:
  
"Whatever you can do
 or dream you can, begin it
Boldness has genius,
power and magic in it."
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W H MURRAY . THE SCOTTISH HIMALAYAN EXPEDITION

Thank you very much to Pareeerica for sharing this amazing picture under a Creative Commons Licence.  
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