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Poster: Debbie Abilock <debbie@NUEVASCHOOL.ORG>
Subject: Re: Let's help the Newbies....
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Hi Leni:
Here's mine...
> 1. If I could do it again...
> What do YOU know now that you wish you had known "then"? If you
> relived your Fellows experience, what would you choose to do
> differently?
Done some more brainstorming with the Fellows who were there before we
worked on our projects. Now you have the advantage of looking at many
lessons that are up...that can help enlarge peoples' frame of reference!
> 2. Tales from the Institute....
> What will you always remember (poignant, moving, silly, embarrassing,
> hysterically funny...FESS UP!) Let's help break the ice for the new
> inductees by sharing snippets of our memories!
Late at night songs around a piano...and a very, very cold room in which
Cynthia and I worked for hours late into the night on our own project.
> 3. Wishes for success....
> Heartfelt wishes to cheer, instill confidence and buoy spirits can go
> a loooooong way! I'm sure you remember that feeling of, "What has
> insignificant me gotten myself into???"
Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones
to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle
Debbie Abilock
The Nueva School
6565 Skyline Blvd.
Hillsborough, CA 94010
debbie@nuevaschool.org
http://www.nuevaschool.org
Editor, Knowledge Quest
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"It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin barefoot
irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known,
but to question it." (Jacob Bronowski)
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