If we respect students abilities to define their own experiences, to generate their own hypotheses, and to discover new ways of categorizing the world, we might not be so quick to evaluate the adequacy of their answers. We might, instead, begin listening to their questions. Out of the questions of students come some of the most creative ideas and discoveries.
What we have learned to look for in a situation determines mostly what we see. - Ellen Langer
What we have learned to look for in a situation determines mostly what we see.
- Ellen Langer
When people are not in the moment, they're not there to know that they're not there. - Ellen Langer
When people are not in the moment, they're not there to know that they're not there.
Certainty is a cruel mindset. It hardens our minds against possibility. - Ellen Langer
Certainty is a cruel mindset. It hardens our minds against possibility.
There is always a step small enough from where we are to get us to where we want to be. If we take that small step, there's always another we can tak… - Ellen Langer
There is always a step small enough from where we are to get us to where we want to be. If we take that small step, there's always another we can tak…
Knowing what is and knowing what can be are not the same thing. - Ellen Langer
Knowing what is and knowing what can be are not the same thing.
Wherever you put the mind, the body will follow. - Ellen Langer
Wherever you put the mind, the body will follow.
People are at their most mindful when they are at play. If we find ways of enjoying our work blurring the lines between work and play the gains will … - Ellen Langer
People are at their most mindful when they are at play. If we find ways of enjoying our work blurring the lines between work and play the gains will …
The rules you were given were the rules that worked for the person who created them. - Ellen Langer
The rules you were given were the rules that worked for the person who created them.
Stress is a function not of events, but of our view of those events. - Ellen Langer
Stress is a function not of events, but of our view of those events.
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