Principle #12: School Is a Game,

but It's a Very Important Game.

Principle #1 : Nobody Can Teach
Principle #11: If You're Doing It for the You as Well as You Can Teach
Grades or for the Approval of Others, Yourself.
You're Missing the Satisfaction of the
Process and Putting Your Self-Esteem at
Principle #2 : Merely Listening to
the Mercy of Things Outside Your Control.
Your Teachers and Completing
Their Assignments is Never
Principle #10 : How Well You Do in Enough.
School Reflects Your Attitude and
Your Method, Not Your Ability.
Principle #3 : Not Everything You
Are Assigned to Read or Asked to
Principle #9 : Few Things Are as
What Smart Do Is Equally Important.
Potentially Difficult, Frustrating, or Students Know
Frightening as Genuine Learning, 12 Principles Principle #4 : Grades Are Just
Yet Nothing Is So Empowering.
Subjective Opinions.

Principle #8 : Subjects Do Not

Principle #5 : Making Mistakes
Always Seem Interesting or
(and Occasionally Appearing
Relevant, but Being Actively
Foolish) Is the Price You Pay for
Engaged in Learning Them is
Learning and Improving.
Better than Being Passively Bored
and Not Learning Them.
Principle #6 : The Point of a
Question Is to Get You to Think -
Principle #7 : You're In School to
Not Simply to Answer It.
Learn to Think for Yourself, Not to
Repeat What Your Textbooks and
Teachers Tell You.

Source: "What Smart Students Know" by Adam Robinson

l522107_What-Smart-Students-Know-12-Principles.mmap - 04/07/2008 - Chance Brown