Corey

“teachers should have two goals: All students are able to connect new learning to their prior knowledge and experiences. All teachers relate new learning to students' everyday lives and culture.”
― Gayle Gregory, The Motivated Brain: Improving Student Attention, Engagement, and Perseverance

“One’s desire to be alone, biologists have found, is partially genetic and to some degree measurable. If you have low levels of the pituitary peptide oxytocin—sometimes called the master chemical of sociability—and high quantities of the hormone vasopressin, which may suppress your need for affection, you tend to require fewer interpersonal relationships.”
― Michael Finkel, The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit

“Thought requires concepts, and analogies are perhaps the best way to gradually understand a concept. Analogical thought associates common elements between an understood concept and one that is not yet understood.”
― Gayle Gregory, The Motivated Brain: Improving Student Attention, Engagement, and Perseverance

“The more you realize, the more you realize there is nothing to realize,” she said. “The idea that there’s somewhere we have got to get to, and something we have to attain, is our basic delusion.”
― Michael Finkel, The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit