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For generations raised on the instant gratification of modern media, persistence can be a difficult trait to learn and develop. "I want the answer and I want it NOW!" Unfortunately, the focus upon trivial pursuits and questions requiring simple factual answers has fostered a "fast fact" mentality which expects neatly packaged answers delivered hot and fresh at a drive up window. |
How many of our children have the persistence to build a model plane or a model cathedral with hundreds of small pieces which can only be put together if one READs the DIRECTIONs? How many can build a complex idea over the period of several days or weeks?
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Children must learn to "go the distance." The ability to stick with a tough thinking or learning task over time will give students an important advantage in school and later on in life. |
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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Anglo-Irish playwright, critic. Man and Superman, "Maxims for Revolutionists: Reason" (1903).
The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations
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