No other species flees from boredom with as much urgency as we do. We are far more eager to do brain work than we are to do physical labor.
Learning, Curiosity
As the unexpected becomes ordinary, the spotlight shifts once again to land where your brain thinks it will get more informational bang for the attentional buck.
Learning
Teaching is the art of serendipity. Each of us has the experience of finding out that something we intended as only the most casual of remarks, or the stray example, changes the way some students thought to the point of changing their lives.
Learning, Openness, Curiosity
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