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“Is it that you can’t, or that you don’t want to?”
Posted by: Natasha Chiang | May 15, 2012 | Leave a Comment
I am reading LouAnne Johnson’s “Teaching Outside the Box”. In one chapter she refers to the question that her mentor once asked his student: “Is it that you can’t, or that you want to?” He challenged his student to replace all his “can’ts” with “don’t want to”. The statement, “I can’t solve this problem” becomes […]