Creativity Archives - Vincent Ryan Ruggiero Official website - Author https://mind-at-work.com/essays/creativity/ Vincent Ryan Ruggiero - Author of books and essays Sat, 30 Nov 2019 15:03:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://mind-at-work.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/cropped-open-book-32x32.png Creativity Archives - Vincent Ryan Ruggiero Official website - Author https://mind-at-work.com/essays/creativity/ 32 32 The Path of the Wandering Calf https://mind-at-work.com/the-path-of-the-wandering-calf/ Sat, 30 Nov 2019 15:03:00 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=3667 Many years ago, when I was a college professor, I came across a poem by Sam Walter Foss (1858-1911) that revealed how easily we can fall into habits that keep us from thinking critically and creatively. I shared that poem with my students and included it in the book I was writing at the time, [...]

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]]> Humor and Learning https://mind-at-work.com/humor-learning/ Thu, 20 Mar 2014 14:06:48 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=848 Why do many teachers have the attitude that learning is such serious business that any hint of humor undermines it? I discovered a partial answer some years ago in a restaurant outside Wellesley, Massachusetts. It may have been an old library—it certainly looked like one, with bookcases lining the walls and dividing the aisles. While [...]

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