[The reflective practitioner] allows himself to experience surprise, puzzlement, or confusion in a situation which he finds uncertain or unique. He reflects on the phenomena before him, and on the prior understandings which have been implicit in his behaviour. He carries out an experiment which serves to generate both a new understanding of the phenomena and a change in the situation. [He] is not dependant on the categories of established theory and technique… his enquiry is not limited to a deliberation about means which depends on a prior agreement about ends. He does not keep means and ends separate…he does not separate thinking from doing.

To be truely radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing.

— Raymond Williams (A British Historian)

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
— William Bruce Cameroon

The purpose of life is to discover your gifts. The work of life is to develop them. And the meaning of life is to give them away.

I like David Viscott’s quote with the gift pluralized in it to suit my beliefs. I believe we have many gifts, not just one.

The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The work of life is to develop it. The meaning of life is to give your gift away.

— David Viscott