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Benjamin Franklin is the Don Draper of teachers

10/27/2010

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I swear; has Benjamin Franklin ever had a bad inspirational quote?  The latest off of my Twitter feed, from TeachHub.com:  Quote of the Day: "Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn." -- Benjamin Franklin

The magic is in how we choose to involve students in their learning.  I suppose this can be re-quoted in academic teacher-speak to say: "Tell me (didactically) and I forget. Teach me (teacher-centered) and I remember. Involve me (student-directed) and I learn."
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03/05/2013 01:19

Wow. Just was thinking of Don Draper as a kind of Benjamin Franklin figure, or both operating on the American immigrant formula of total self-transformation: a new name, a new accent, a new profession, all of which presumes a new identity--and discarding the old.

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