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Imagination Is About Perception

October 30, 2019October 30, 2019 jedscottBooks, Creativity

“You won’t understand anything about the imagination until you realize that it’s not about making things up, it’s about perception.” From The Secret Commonwealth by Philip Pullman (Chapter 9) I came across this quotation today and was struck by it. Do you think of imagination as invention, or as understanding? […]

How To Be An Outstanding Learner

October 22, 2019October 22, 2019 jedscottBooks, Education

I’ve had this passage stuck in my head since I read it as a high school freshman in 1991 or 1992. It resurfaces whenever I’m thinking about what it takes to be an outstanding learner. In Chaim Potok’s masterpiece The Chosen, the narrator and protagonist Reuven Master, is studying the […]