Rina Iati's List: 21century

• Now, this is a report some skeptics might well  dismiss as another attempt to reinvent the educational wheel.

  • Education needs to be reinvented. NEA, however, often gets in the way.

• Quotient.

  • Great equation to use in a powerpoint
• But I’m a really lateral thinker and I really get energized by people who think  laterally because I think that’s where the breakthroughs are
• I think we need a lot more “yes, but” teaching.
• What does it tell you when two of our greatest innovators are both college  dropouts? Something’s not quite right about the system.
• You can’t be a really good connector if you don’t know algorithms and calculus.  But you can’t be a connector if you only know algorithms and calculus.
• I’ve always encouraged them to write. You can be the smartest, most capable  person, but if you can’t express yourself in words on paper, you’ll have a real  liability in competing.

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