Dukerisms

= Dukerich’s words of wisdom .=
 * 1) ===//“There is no modeling police.”//===
 * 2) ===//“I don’t want you to draw what you can see, I want you to draw what you can imagine.”//===
 * 3) ===//“Running a whiteboard session is like herding cats.”//===
 * 4) ===//Student: “Could you pour me the “N” “A” “two” “S” “Oh” “Four” Dukerich: “Okay. Do you want it in a “B” “E” “A” “K” “E” “R” ?//===
 * 5) ===//“To name is not to explain...and to recite is not to understand.” quoting Feynman//===
 * 6) ===//“If I told you the answer, I would be doing you a disservice. I want your brain to hurt.”//===
 * 7) ===//“It’s called the 0.357 rule; you blow away the first person who does something wrong.”//===
 * 8) ===//“You can’t expect high school students to automatically exhibit appropriate adult behavior. That’s what you’re getting paid the big bucks for…well, that’s what you’re getting paid for.”//===
 * 9) ===//“What’s the definition of craziness? Repeating the same things and expecting different results.”//===
 * 10) ===//“They say ‘cream rises to the top.’ Well actuall, b*$#*s%@* rises to the top.”//===
 * 11) ===//“I’ve been asked before, but don’t know if I would be able to write something for JChemEd. First of all, if you’ve ever read JChemEd, I don’t know if I could write that boring.”//===
 * 12) ===//“Shut up and let your kids do the talking.”//===
 * 13) ===//“Think outside the syringe.”//===
 * 14) ===//“They want to play connect the dots because back in 5th grade they did this on a grapah and made an elephant.”//===
 * 15) ===//“These have a scientific name, they are called ‘wooshies.’”//===
 * 16) ===//“The horse is dead. Its already in the glue factory.”//===
 * 17) ===//“We need to distinguish between a Socratic dialog and a Socratic inquisition.”//===
 * 18) ===//“Don’t use the word ‘it’, unless you are saying ‘it’s 3:00 and I’m out of here.”//===
 * 19) ===//Dukerich: “Hi, I’m Larry. And I’m a traditional teacher.” Class: “Hi Larry”//===
 * 20) ===//“If I’m taking apart a washer, I don’t throw all of the parts into a box. Well, I might if I was a Maytag repairman.”//===
 * 21) ===//“We have these things called smart technology. I call them ‘not so smart technology’.”//===
 * 22) ===//“We need to have ‘the energy talk.’”//===
 * 23) ===//“Now, I don’t use the f – word in chemistry. I don’t think kids are ready for it.”//===
 * 24) ===//“What am I getting for my energy dollar?”//===
 * 25) ===//“Energy is energy. But the systems and the surrounding don’t give a rat’s ass what we call it.”//===
 * 26) ===//“I’m not inside your head, yet.”//===
 * 27) ===//“These are wooshies, those are wigglies.”//===
 * 28) ===//“If you give them the whole biscuit at once, they’ll choke on it.”//===
 * 29) ===//Student: “You lost me at ‘hello.’”//===
 * 30) ===//“Life is not a multiple choice test, and the answer is not always ‘B.’//===
 * 31) ===//“When you’re going out on a limb, you need to be careful that no one is sawing it off behind you.”//===
 * 32) ===//“If the only tool in your toolbox is a hammer, everything starts looking like a nail.”//===
 * 33) ===//“I’ve been to too many power-point whippings.”//===
 * 34) ===//“You can give a crappy lecture with high tech-crap or low tech crap. Either way, its not interactive anymore, baby.”//===
 * 35) ===//“Except for the fact that I don’t like dancing baloney.”//===
 * 36) ===//“Yeah, but I lied.”//===
 * 37) ===//“Education is a series of less egregious lies.”//===
 * 38) ===//“I don’t want you to believe in everything that you hear.”//===
 * 39) ===//“This is probably a two pitcher conversation.”//===
 * 40) ===//“Note taking is a skill that we think that students should have. They don’t. We should know better.”//===
 * 41) ===//“What I know about moodle could fill a thimble.”//===
 * 42) ===//“Its not what you know that hurts you, its what you know that isn’t so.” Mark Twain.//===
 * 43) ===//“Yes I’m dumb, and so be it. There are some things that I won’t figure out before I’m done.”//===
 * 44) ===//“Students are not like magnetic tape.” --from Arnold Aarons//===
 * 45) ===//“You don’t solve all of the world’s problems in one day.”//===
 * 46) ===//“If I decide to jump out of the window, maybe because I’m tired of grading these lab reports…”//===
 * 47) ===//“A model has got to be different from the model we are trying to explain, otherwise it just makes our heads hurt.”//===
 * 48) ===//“They’ll get there, or not.”//===
 * 49) ===//“Its easier than killing them”//===
 * 50) ===//“First, do no harm.”//===
 * 51) ===//“We promulgate what we have been taught ourselves.”//===
 * 52) ===//“In order to form a hypothesis, you need to know something.”//===
 * 53) ===//“We’ll do ABC on this one. Anyone but Clee can answer.”//===
 * 54) ===//“There is a difference between errors and blunders.”//===
 * 55) ===//“It’s lunch-30”//===
 * 56) ===//“Instead of a density triangle, you have a concentration triangle. It’s like a Bermuda triangle.”//===
 * 57) ===//“The wrap on inquiry is that you learn everything you need to know in just under 200 years.”//===
 * 58) ===//Jen: "The left side is the left side, the right side is the right side."//===
 * 59) ===//Caren: "Are you happy now? Her head exploded."//===
 * 60) ===//Student: “Why do we have to learn this?”//===
 * ===//Dukerich: “You don’t have to do it, you get to do it.”//===
 * ===//Dukerich: “I need someone to take care of me when I’m older.”//===