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.)

Wednesday, April 29, 2020

CHAPTER 7 CARL FEYNMAN AND THE NOBEL LAUREATE (in progress)


"Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time." Leo F. Buscaglia

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style. Maya Angelou

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away. -- William Shakespeare



What I learned from Carl and his Nobel Laureate father Richard Feynman.

Carl Feynman always arrived a few minutes earlier than other students.  With 8 lab stations on the perimeter of the room, he’d take a chair and place it a top his favorite lab counter then take command of his seat above like a sentry on duty. From this elevated position he’d open a book and read for the entire period.  I was concerned he wasn’t paying attention or learning any science, but his exam scores demonstrated otherwise.






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