Take a close look at the human brain in the this photo. I taught my students: “Your brain is neurologically unique.”
As a teacher it became my life’s work to uncover their unique learning styles and open the doors for their optimal learning.

Nelson Mandela once wrote:
"What counts in life is not the mere fact that we lived...
it is what difference we have made to the lives of others
that will determine the significance of the life we lead."

"Sometimes it is the very people
who no one imagines anything of
who can do the things no one imagined."
--Alan Turing

Framed over the entrance to my classroom:
"Forget the struggling world
and every trembling fear.
Here all are kin...
and here the rule of life is love.”

--Irving Stone, 1947. (If students didn't see it overhead on the way in, they would come to feel it on their way out.)

Monday, April 6, 2020

AFTERWORD



Teaching has been an inspiration, which is one of the reasons I'm writing* this book. That inspiration, now motivation came from my students and colleagues. And so I wanted to tell you their stories and how their influence awakened a renewing and animating spirit that for 39 years moved me to continue teaching. But just like I told my students. 

"Don't believe me. Don't believe me because I'm your teacher. I could be misinformed or mistaken. You have my invitation to be skeptical of everything I say, everything you hear and see and read.* 

Ask yourself, "Who said that? (based on what expertise) Who wrote this? Who paid for the making of this such and such media content or that video? What's the motivation behind this editorial or that brochure? Find other sources to prove or disprove what you learn from me or what you hear from anyone else.

*(Written in present tense, that sentence reveals that the writing of this book continues on NeuroUnique, one of my websites.)

Try these questions on this next sentence.

Teachers make a remarkable and unimaginable difference in the lives of their students.
Don't believe me, but take a look at this. Click HERE for example number one.

My thesis: teachers make little known but unimaginable differences in the lives of their students. But don't believe me... here's more.

Before we end, here is a list of “Must Sees” and “Must Reads”. 

Film: 1. Dead Poets Society. When watching, take notes about what Keating does that are characteristic of a great teacher.  We’ll compare notes when you’ve seen the film and read “Oh Captain, My Captain”. 

Books: 1. The Farther Reaches of Human Nature by Abraham Maslow


Afterword

There is always the possibility of beauty where there is an unsealed human eye; of music where there is an unstopped human ear; and of inspiration where there is a receptive human spirit. --Charles Henry Parkhurst  


I see the Future of Public Education: in inspiration, music, beauty, emotion, and belief, all under the influence of a moral compass. --tnm


 To paraphrase:  Education must provide a  holistic, human-centric perspective... it is the highest experience of what a school can bring to its students.  

“In the end, there’s one thing humans want more than anything: To feel more alive. Truly human experiences satisfy our emotions, ethics and creativity.”  --Martin Recke

The Future of Education

Schools powered by HX will go beyond common educational institutions. The Chief Education Officer of Human Experience will shape how people feel about their place of work, their place of learning, how empowered, engaged, happy and fulfilled they are.  HX is the purposeful engineering of learning and work based on the understanding of human neural landscapes and authentic human experiences.




LESSONS TO REMEMBER
 
PERMANENT RECORD OF 
THE STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS

 
The Center of Gravity: Los Alamos National Laboratory
 
 

 
 
 
 
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