This document contains quotes and insights around the themes of imagination, curiosity, and community. It discusses forgetting to advocate for what we find beautiful and necessary in our pursuit of justice. It emphasizes the importance of curiosity in learning and quotes that curiosity is a complex and nuanced driver of intellectual growth. The document encourages getting curious, opening learning up, and coming together.

3. 2014
JUNE

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7. teachinginhighered.com/FTTC2021

8. IMAGINATION

9. I OFTEN THINK THE GAP
IN OUR SPEAKING
ABOUT + FOR JUSTICE,
OR WORKING FOR
JUSTICE, IS THAT WE
FORGET TO ADVOCATE
FOR WHAT WE LOVE,
FOR WHAT WE FIND
BEAUTIFUL AND
NECESSARY.
Ross Gay | On Being Podcast

10. WE ARE GOOD AT
FIGHTING, BUT IMAGINING,
+ HOLDING IN ONE’S
IMAGINATION WHAT IS
WONDERFUL + TO BE
ADORED + PRESERVED +
EXALTED IS HARDER
FOR US, IT SEEMS.
Ross Gay | On Being Podcast

15. ETHEL
meet

18. I'VE NEVER GIVEN UP
BEING ASTONISHED
AT LIFE.
Sandra Cisneros, being interviewed on the On Being podcast

19. Instructions for living a life:
Mary Oliver
PAY ATTENTION.
BE ASTONISHED.
TELL ABOUT IT.

20. GET
curious
OPEN
it up
COME
together

21. GET
curious

22. IN ORDER TO LEARN
SOMETHING, WE MUST
FIRST WONDER ABOUT IT.
Joshua Eyler, How Humans Learn

24. IS AN ESSENTIAL PART OF THE
WAY HUMAN BEINGS LEARN,
AND IT ALWAYS HAS BEEN
CURIOSITY
Joshua Eyler, How Humans Learn

26. DAVE STACHOWIAK

28. WHEN YOU BURN
TO KNOW WHAT
COMES NEXT, YOU
ARE FEELING
CURIOUS.
Sarah Rose Cavanagh, The Spark of Learning

29. ...THE WICK IN THE
CANDLE OF LEARNING
William Arthur Ward

30. AS A BIOLOGICAL RESPONSE, OR EVEN
AS AN INTELLECTUAL CONSTRUCT,
CURIOSITY IS SO COMPLEX AND
NUANCED THAT THE ONLY THING
SCHOLARS CAN AGREE ON IS ITS
Joshua Eyler, How Humans Learn
IMPORTANCE

31. WHAT IS ONE APPROACH
THAT HAS BEEN
PARTICULARLY EFFECTIVE
FOR YOU IN GETTING
LEARNERS CURIOUS ?

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35. JOE HOYLE

38. TEST (often)

41. OPEN
it up

44. BY SEEING MY REFLECTION IN THIS
YOUNG AFRICAN AMERICAN LADY ON
TELEVISION DOING SCIENCE, IT GAVE
ME PERMISSION TO SAY 'MAYBE I
SHOULD BE DOING THIS THING CALLED
SCIENCE
Ainissa Ramirez on Teaching in Higher Ed Episode 66

45. IDENTITY

53. WHAT IS ONE ASPECT OF THE
SLEEPER THAT REALLY
RESONATED WITH YOU
?

54. COME
together

55. HOW HAVE YOU
INTENTIONALLY BROUGHT
FAILURE INTO THE
LEARNING PROCESS
?

56. THE KIND OF TEACHER YOU
WILL BECOME IS DIRECTLY
RELATED TO THE KIND OF
TEACHERS YOU ASSOCIATE
WITH.
Christopher Emdin

57. TEACHING IS A PROFESSION
WHERE MISERY DOES MORE
THAN JUST LOVE COMPANY—
IT RECRUITS, SEDUCES, AND
ROMANCES IT.
Christopher Emdin

58. AVOID PEOPLE WHO ARE
UNHAPPY AND DISGRUNTLED
ABOUT THE POSSIBILITIES FOR
TRANSFORMING EDUCATION.
Christopher Emdin

59. THEY ARE THE ENEMY OF THE
SPIRIT OF THE TEACHER.
Christopher Emdin

60. GET
curious
OPEN
it up
COME
together