Usable Insight - Teach Your Children Well
Teach Your Children Well
-Crosby, Stills and Nash
if you teach a child to fish, you feed him for a lifetime;
but if you teach a child to learn, you feed him for a lifetime
and he doesn’t have to just eat fish.
The challenge is causing a child to WANT to learn, because people do what they want to do, not what they need to do. The key to that is to play on the mind’s inherent tendency to be curious and through that to become aware of what it wants to be aware of.
In my “Buy In” workshops I show people the FedEx logo and point out the arrow in the negative space between the “E” and the “x”. When they see it, they smile because it delights their brain. Teaching needs to do the same.
The way to a child’s mind is through delight.
© 2007 Mark Goulston
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