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Pamela D. Lloyd ([personal profile] pameladlloyd) wrote2011-04-28 02:35 pm

Quote of the Day

I'm at the Learning Center, between students, and getting ready to brush up on my algebra skills (I've started helping students with math, as well as writing), and I came across the following quote in an algebra text:

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.


I love the quote, but must acknowledge that there's a bit of irony in my use today, since I'm attempting to remaster something I had previously mastered, but have since forgotten.

[identity profile] gillpolack.livejournal.com 2011-04-29 12:19 am (UTC)(link)
Remastery is still about growing - you're learning for your current self and your future self. You're understanding that we're people who change, that we're not temporally passive.

I'm finding this a *lot* with perimenopause. My brain has changed, my body is changing, and so I have to learn and relearn and make all kinds of exciting discoveries again. This frustrated me until my cousin persuaded me into a giant teacup to update my uathor photo. I was spinning around like a 7 year old and I wanted to giggle. I realised that the person who only has to learn things once must have a very simple existence and loses out on a whole bunch of fun.

[identity profile] pdlloyd.livejournal.com 2011-04-29 04:52 am (UTC)(link)
You're right, of course.

I often tell my students that I have a brain like a steel sieve. The part I rarely think about, but which is obvious, is that I must constant refresh its contents. :-D