An unexpected danger of driving in a flooded area

 The city of Duluth had rainfall of nine inches  in one storm, the water cascaded down hillsides and roads, running beneath the pavement to undermine the support for the asphalt.

Ken Robinson - The Element Speech - the point at which natural talent meets personal passion.

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Sir Ken Robinson returns to the RSA to  share new thinking on 'The Element' - the point at which natural talent  meets personal passion.

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Ken Robinson - The Element

Education and Human Possibility:

 “If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.”
― Ken Robinson, The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

 

“The fact is that given the challenges we face, education doesn't need to be reformed -- it needs to be transformed. The key to this transformation is not to standardize education, but to personalize it, to build achievement on discovering the individual talents of each child, to put students in an environment where they want to learn and where they can naturally discover their true passions.”
― Ken Robinson, The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

 

“Creativity is as important as literacy”
― Ken Robinson

“Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement."

"And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.”
― Ken Robinson

“Our task is to educate their (our students) whole being so they can face the future. We may not see the future, but they will and our job is to help them make something of it.”
― Ken Robinson, The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

 

“I believe our only hope for the future is to adopt a new conception of human ecology, one in which we start to reconstitute our concept of the richness in human capacity.”
― Ken Robinson

“Human resources are like natural resources; they're often buried deep. You have to go looking for them, they're not just lying around on the surface. You have to create the circumstances where they show themselves.”
― Ken Robinson

“We have sold ourselves into a fast food model of education, and it's impoverishing our spirit and our energies as much as fast food is depleting our physical bodies.”
― Ken Robinson

“We have to go from what is essentially an industrial model of education, a manufacturing model, which is based on linearity and conformity and batching people. We have to move to a model that is based more on principles of agriculture. We have to recognize that human flourishing is not a mechanical process; it's an organic process. And you cannot predict the outcome of human development. All you can do, like a farmer, is create the conditions under which they will begin to flourish.”
― Ken Robinson

 

“When my son, James, was doing homework for school, he would have five or six windows open on his computer, Instant Messenger was flashing continuously, his cell phone was constantly ringing, and he was downloading music and watching the TV over his shoulder. I don’t know if he was doing any homework, but he was running an empire as far as I could see, so I didn’t really care.”

― Ken Robinson, The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything 

 Source:Ken Robinson Quotes (Author of The Element)
 http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/43940.Ken_Robinson

 

Thomas Paine on Common Sense

"A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right."

Common Sense, 1776, Introduction

"Government even in its best state is but a necessary evil."

Common Sense, 1776, "Of the origin and design of government in general, with concise remarks on the English Constitution."

"The strength of one man is so unequal to his wants, and his mind so unfitted for perpetual solitude, that he is soon obliged to seek assistance and relief of another"

Common Sense, 1776, "Of the origin and design of government in general, with concise remarks on the English Constitution."

"Nothing but heaven is impregnable to vice."

Common Sense, 1776, "Of the origin and design of government in general, with concise remarks on the English Constitution."

"Oppression is often the consequence, but seldom or never the means of riches; and though avarice will preserve a man from being necessitously poor, it generally makes him too timorous to be wealthy."

Common Sense, 1776, "Of monarchy and hereditary succession."

"For all men being originally equals, no one by birth could have a right to set up his own family in perpetual preference to all others for ever"

Common Sense, 1776, "Of monarchy and hereditary succession."

"Of more worth is one honest man to society and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that every lived."

Common Sense, 1776, "Of monarchy and hereditary succession."

"Youth is the seed time of good habits, as well in nations as in individuals."

Common Sense, 1776, "Of the present ability of America, with some miscellaneous reflexions."

"As to religion, I hold it to be the indispensable duty of all government, to protect all conscientious professors thereof, and I know of no other business which government hath to do therewith."

Common Sense, 1776, "Of the present ability of America, with some miscellaneous reflexions."

"Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society."

Common Sense, 1776, "Of the present ability of America, with some miscellaneous reflexions."

"These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of men and women."

The Crisis, 1776, Introduction

Featured Books

• Rights of Man and Common Sense Hardcover - Two of the most influential pamphlets written by Thomas Paine. They are available online through other avenues, but I'm fully convinced that every library should have a copy of these.
• Thomas Paine : Collected Writings Hardcover - Or if you prefer, this selection contains almost all of his work. It includes Common Sense, The Crisis, Rights of Man, The Age of Reason, and other pamphlets, articles, and letters. 906 pages of philosophy from the American and French Revolutions.
• Thomas Paine Videocassette VHS Tape by Carl Shapiro - Originally aired on Cable TV, this 40 minute video discusses Thomas Paine's works and life.

For more information about Thomas Paine, try these links:

• Biography of Thomas Paine - A concise biography of his life by Benni Leemhuis. Although it tends to idolize him a bit, all the facts are listed.
• Common Sense - The full text divided into its four chapters and introduction are available for your reading pleasure. Provided by Bartleby Archive.
• The Age of Paine - A glowing discussion of Thomas Paine and how his spirit lives on in the Internet presented by Jon Katz and Wired Magazine. 

Articles - The Quotations Page

Television

 You can substitute "The Internet" for "Television" and be surprised how many of them still ring true...

"Television is democracy at its ugliest."

Paddy Chayefsky

"Television is the first truly democratic culture -- the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want."

Clive Barnes

"I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens."

Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969)

"Television - a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well-done."

Ernie Kovacs

"It is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome."

T. S. Eliot

"Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home."

David Frost

"Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other."

Ann Landers

"All television is children's television."

Richard P. Adler

"Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it."

Alfred Hitchcock

"Television has raised writing to a new low."

Samuel Goldwyn

"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book."

Groucho Marx (1890-1977)

More about television:

• See old TV's - and old TV programs - at the MZTV Television Museum.
• For more television-related links than you know what to do with, refer to Yahoo's Television category.

Articles - The Quotations Page

Let's Get Motivated

"Please write again soon. Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into others' lives and I come back to my own with greater contentment."

Elizabeth Hailey, "A Woman of Independent Means"

"One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness."

Josh Billings

"The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own."

Benjamin Disraeli

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."

Mark Twain

"I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says: 'Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest.' I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have - When he gives everything that is in him to do the job he has before him. That is all you can ask of him and that is what I have tried to do."

Harry S. Truman

"Be not afraid of greatness: some men are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them."

William Shakespeare, "Twelfth Night"

"Live well. It is the greatest revenge."

The Talmud

Featured Books 

• Life 101 Hardcover by Peter McWilliams - Reading one of his books is tantamount to reading them all, but this is the one I recommend. A wonderfully positive book with lots of quotations, many of which found their way into the Motivational Quotes of the Day collection.
• Good AdviceHardcover by William Safire, Leonard Safir (Compiler) - Many quotes from the Motivational Quote of the Day page are from this book. There is no better place to find good advice about life, business dealings and fear than from people who have gone through it before. This small little book is organized by subject. I really like this book and have read the entire thing a few times, but there are two things that go against it: the attributes are simple, and there are many Unknowns or Proverbs. I don't really like to use quotes by Unknown because I suspect that someone said them, but they aren't getting credit for it. Aside from those minor problems, this book is a lot of fun with cute pictures and great organization.
• Do It! Let's Get Off Our Butts Hardcover by Peter McWilliams - Although it shares much of its information with Life 101, there is nothing more motivational than this book. It combines wisdom with methods of motivating yourself. All of that with wonderful quotations to boot.
• 100 Ways to Motivate Yourself Hardcover by Steve Chandler - More quick tips for getting the life you have always desired. Get rid of those negative thoughts and that pessimistic attitude. Recipient of the King Features Syndicate 1997 AudioBook of the Year Award.

For more information about Motivation, try these links:

• Motivating Moments - A quotation collection also containing motivational, inspirational and positive quotes. Organized into three groups: Customer Service and Sales, Motivational & Positive Quotes, and Inspirational Quotes.
• Good Thinking Quotes - Another quote collection devoted to motivational quotations from the good people at Patrick Comb's www.goodthink.com (reminds me of the doublespeak in George Orwell's 1984, but that's another story).
• Daily Motivator - Motivating thoughts brought to you every day by Ralph S. Marston, Jr.
• The Maximum Potential Project - This site is described as a mental health program aimed at conquering the problems of underachievers and restoring motivation, self-esteem, and happiness. It uses therapy to help people who feel that they are underachievers. Read the Motivational Quotes of the Day page every day and you might avoid costly therapist bills. 

Articles - The Quotations Page

Scots Joke

A bloke walks into a Glasgow library and says to the prim librarian,

'Excuse me Miss, dey ye hiv ony books on suicide?'

To which she stops doing her tasks, looks at him over the top of her glasses and says,

'Fook off, ye'll no bring it back!'