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“Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.” - George S. Patton (1885-1945)
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Instructional scaffolding is the support given to a student by an instructor throughout the learning process. This support is specifically tailored to each student; this instructional approach allows students to experience student-centered learning, which tends to facilitate more efficient learning than teacher-centered learning. This learning process promotes a deeper level of learning than many other common teaching strategies.
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"If you understand, things are just as they are. If you do not understand, things are just as they are." - Zen Proverb
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"Knowledge is the beginning of practice; doing is the completion of knowing" - Wang Yangming
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"Your life has a limit but knowledge has none. If you use what is limited to pursue what has no limit, you will be in danger. If you understand this and still strive for knowledge, you will be in danger for certain!" - Zhuangzi on The Danger of Knowledge
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The Danger of Knowledge - Zhuangzi - Chapter 3 (The Basics of Nurturing Life)
CC Tsai illustration: https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Way_of_Nature/1ZuBDwAAQBAJ
Full text Translated by Burton Watson: https://terebess.hu/english/chuangtzu.html -
Talk by Herbert Simon at the Earthware Symposium, Carnegie Mellon University (Oct.2000, one year before his death) - reflection on how technology and knowledge will continue to shape the world
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"It is precisely what is invisible in the land that makes what is merely empty space to one person, a place to another." - Yi Fu Tuan
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"Tip of the icebergs": Clichéd metaphors in education - by David Loewen
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"the process by which a theory, lesson, or skill is enacted, practiced, embodied, or realized."
