#EdJourney Quotes

“If you are not willing to change, you should not be a teacher. It is now part of the job. Period.”
― Grant Lichtman, #EdJourney: A Roadmap to the Future of Education

“learning in the absence of risk is often a sterile experience.”
― Grant Lichtman, #EdJourney: A Roadmap to the Future of Education

“In a permeable classroom, schools use their community and beyond to learn by using the resources, inspiration, and environment beyond the walls of the classroom to generate learning experiences that can’t be replicated in the school house.”
― Grant Lichtman, #EdJourney: A Roadmap to the Future of Education

“Schools were built to create an efficient transfer of knowledge from one generation to the next, and that purpose is no longer valid. School communities that truly understand this are meeting at school, but learning in the world.”
― Grant Lichtman, #EdJourney: A Roadmap to the Future of Education

“Thinking of stuff is not innovation. Tinkering with stuff is not innovation. Even inventing stuff is not innovation. Innovation instead, when it’s done right, makes us go “wow, of course, why didn’t I think of that?” It creates complete experiences that we want to engage in. It eliminates inconveniences and hassles and improves our overall experiences. At its most dramatic, it creates entire categories of offerings, so new that we find it hard to name them at first.”
― Grant Lichtman, #EdJourney: A Roadmap to the Future of Education

“Innovation here is pointed toward developing a mindset, not a specific outcome.”
― Grant Lichtman, #EdJourney: A Roadmap to the Future of Education

“Every month they give an award to the teacher who took a risk and failed most dramatically, and that award is as highly regarded as awards for teachers who try something new and succeed.”
― Grant Lichtman, #EdJourney: A Roadmap to the Future of Education

“Developing new ideas requires questions and approaches that most people won’t understand initially, which leaves many true innovators at risk of becoming lonely or misunderstood.”
― Grant Lichtman, #EdJourney: A Roadmap to the Future of Education

“Each adult viewed himself or herself as a stand-alone learning project. Now we see how powerfully the entire organization can leverage an ever-widening knowledge base by creating time and pathways for adults to share their learning with each other.”
― Grant Lichtman, #EdJourney: A Roadmap to the Future of Education