Fortune Cookies by Dimitris Maroulis

Wear Your Sunscreen
“Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young” (Mary Schmich)
The Appetizers
Mary Schmich, a Chicago Tribune columnist, was strolling along a beach when she noticed a small group of youn...
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Some Answers to Frequently Asked Questions
“We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems” (John W. Gardner)
The Appetizers
Picture this: you are under a shady umbrella, lying on ...
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Self-healing
“Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack, a crack in everything That’s how the light gets in”… Leonard Cohen
The Appetizers
The end of the school year evok...
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Decoding CODA
“There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see” Leonardo Da Vinci
Text by: Dimitris Maroulis
The Appetizers
Child of Deaf Adults is what ...
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Imagine IF…
“Our role is to create the right conditions for life and learning to flourish. When we do that, we realise we have been in the miracle business all along”
(Sir Ken Robinson)
The Appetizers
There ar...
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The Power of Metaphors
“Your time is limited: don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinion drow...
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The Pygmalion effect: Positive encouragement and praise
“The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind” (Williams James, 1842-1910)
The Appetizers
In educational psychology, Acade...
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From “lost and lackadaisical” to “assertive learners” within a month!
Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The appetizers
I quote from Tim Murphey: “I had a couple of students in my classes at t...
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We are in desperate need of new heroes (role-models)!
The appetizers
Walking alone in the world’s strangest places, only with your backpack, that was Paul Salopek’s dream; his own Odyssey. He is doing it for a project with the name: Out of Eden Walk ...
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Can you teach a robot how to be a human? Is water a commodity?
The appetizers
Kazuo Ishiguro’s latest book “Klara and the Sun” (2020) refers to the near (?) future when children get digital enhancements and technological endowments that empower them to be mor...
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#1: How well do you know your students’ needs?
Children are the world’s most valuable resource and its best hope for the future (J.F. Kennedy)
Use CLIL approaches as reskilling skyrockets
According to the World Economic Forum more than...
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