Quote of the Day

[pameladlloyd]

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.

Comments

[gillpolack.livejournal.com]

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.

[pdlloyd.livejournal.com]

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