I always liked this Pasteur quote, and now there’s scientific proof he was correct.
More than a century ago, the great scientist Louis Pasteur said, “Chance favors only the prepared mind.” By this, he meant that sudden flashes of insight don’t just happen, but are the product of preparation. According to Kounios, “We have begun to understand how the brain prepares for creative insight. This will hopefully lead to techniques for facilitating it.” Read more at ‘Aha!’ Favors the Prepared Mind
Can anyone say it better than Stephen Colbert? “Mississippi is a shining example of how easy it is to succeed if you simply redefine success as below whatever you’re currently achieving.”
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NJCSU
Help your family, friends, neighbors, even strangers, understand why we shouldn’t cut public service funds… Unite and send the message you are public servants of equal and utmost importance for everyday civilian life for the entire state. Municipal, county, and state workers, all civil servants, should work hard on the job… show your neighbors you care, and your job is worth saving, and push those around you to do the same. Advocate for other ways to cut costs that you see in your workplace everyday. We need start with cutting the waste and abuse that we see around us. All of us!
We should be selectively cutting budgets where we see waste and abuse. This seems like common sense, yet it is not standard practice. Why not?
I welcome your commentary on the subject.
anti-NJEA
To my fellow teachers:
The Union let you down. Christie’s anti-teacher rhetoric is misdirected. No one is making the distinction between the teachers and the NJEA. Does the NJEA really represent what all you teachers believe? I don’t think the NJEA gives one hoot about members as individuals. I didn’t see one “Vote YES” ad prior to yesterday’s vote. Another bang-up job by the NJEA.
NJEA is hindering forward progress in New Jersey public schools that is well past due. The NJEA has lost its way. New Jersey public school teachers need to stand up and tell the NJEA that the times have changed.
It’s time to end tenure as we know it now. It is INSANE to keep bad teachers on the job. For every tenured teacher who half-asses their day, there are younger, cheaper, more enthusiastic teachers waiting in the wings… it’s that simple. If you currently teach, do you agree with me? Do you think it should be so hard to fire shitty teachers? If you don’t perform like you did on day one (or better) in 98% of the other jobs on planet Earth, you are let go, fired, pink-slipped, terminated. What’s wrong with that? This leads to workers performing well the majority of the time, and even trying to perform better, or out-perform others. What’s wrong with that? I’d have loved to work at a school where everyone is at 100%, 98% of the time! Getting rid of older teachers who do nothing (whose supervisors know they do nothing, but said shitty supervisors give shitty inflated observations, instead of documenting the shitty truth) will save districts millions of dollars. Districts could get 2-3 new hires for the price of an old do-nothing. Not to mention the boost to the school building’s moral.
The following is complete bullshit from the NJEA: