{"id":842,"date":"2011-05-20T12:46:50","date_gmt":"2011-05-20T19:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dannyadam.com\/blog\/?p=842"},"modified":"2011-05-21T01:20:03","modified_gmt":"2011-05-21T08:20:03","slug":"5202011-quote-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dannyadam.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/5202011-quote-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"5\/20\/2011 Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s quote is from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gilbert_Strang\">Gilbert Strang<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This is like a grown-up course. I&#8217;m figuring you&#8217;re here to learn, so it&#8217;s not my job to force it. My job is to help it, and I hope this is some help.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/ocw.mit.edu\/courses\/mathematics\/18-085-computational-science-and-engineering-i-fall-2008\/video-lectures\/recitation-1-key-ideas-of-linear-algebra\/\">MIT\u00a018.085\u00a0Computational\u00a0Science\u00a0and\u00a0Engineering\u00a0I,\u00a0Recitation\u00a01 (49:18)<\/a> [Fall 2008]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The quote conveys Strang&#8217;s priority to help students learn.<\/p>\n<p>Schooling can sometimes present obstacles that interfere with learning. Credits, requirements, grades, rote assignments and other aspects of school can all distract from learning. While I understand their intended purpose, I suspect that there are ways to minimize such distractions. Treating a course as a \u201cgrown-up course\u201d\u00a0sounds like it might be Strang&#8217;s way to mitigate distractions,\u00a0benefiting\u00a0the students that are\u00a0\u201c[there] to learn.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The distinction between schooling and education is addressed in the following quote, attributed to Mark Twain.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I never let schooling interfere with my education.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t been able to trace the quote&#8217;s origin. The quote conveys Twain&#8217;s belief that the\u00a0objectives and\/or outcomes of schooling and education\u00a0are\u00a0misaligned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s quote is from Gilbert Strang. This is like a grown-up course. I&#8217;m figuring you&#8217;re here to learn, so it&#8217;s not my job to force it. My job is to help it, and I hope this is some help. MIT\u00a018.085\u00a0Computational\u00a0Science\u00a0and\u00a0Engineering\u00a0I,\u00a0Recitation\u00a01 (49:18) [Fall 2008] The quote conveys Strang&#8217;s priority to help students learn. Schooling can sometimes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1sCC6-dA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dannyadam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dannyadam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dannyadam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dannyadam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dannyadam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=842"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.dannyadam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":936,"href":"https:\/\/www.dannyadam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions\/936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dannyadam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dannyadam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dannyadam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}