Terry Roberts

Director, National Paideia Center

[Terry Roberts @robertsterrylee]

Read with us as we explore democratic discussion! https://t.co/LopjXsHpj5

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#CivitasChallenge Question about the Reading:

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If you want to travel fast, go alone; if you want to travel far, go together!
-African Proverb #socraticseminar

[Lynn Roberts @lynnkeith]

.@robertsterrylee leading a seminar on a Dali painting with @pserockets 4th graders. #socraticseminar

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Providence Spring ranks highest performing elementary school in North Carolina http://t.co/OJQ9rfBkfx

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Socratic Questioning is among the most powerful ways to engage student minds. Read more at http://t.co/qfvlF3MwdS #SocraticSeminar

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Missing our friend and colleague Bob Alexander, who left us this year. We are with you in spirit, Bob, and the work will go on!

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"We learn to read differently by tackling the classics...in order to live in a wider world." -Jacques Barzun

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Listen to an NPR story on Socrates as teacher--and the Socratic method alive and well in the contemporary world. http://t.co/R6TcKVY01U

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"Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age." --Albert Einstein

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"Education is ... the balance-wheel of the social machinery." -Horace Mann

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"The aim of education is wisdom, and each must have the chance to become as wise as he can." -Robert Maynard Hutchins

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"No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive." -Mahatma Gandhi

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"Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions ... will vanish like evil spirits." -Thomas Jefferson

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"Education ... beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men." -Horace Mann

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"Teaching is the highest of the ... cooperative arts [because] it is devoted to the good of others." -Mortimer Adler

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The principal should always be the lead teacher in any school building, someone whose first concern is instruction.

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"Read not to contradict and confute ... but to weigh and consider." -Francis Bacon

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@KellyGToGo Kudos to you Kelly for tweeting my favorite Francis Bacon quote!

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The first ingredient in great teaching is to be a model learner.

[Terry Roberts @robertsterrylee]

Our business as teachers is the discipline of wonder: not to kill it but to make it strong enough to survive.