QUOTES ON CONTEMPLATION
Both slow making and slow writing are multi-step procedures that play out according to rhythms of activity, contemplation, and rest. ~Richard Hughes Gibson
Enjoying art is a personal matter. It's made up by contemplation, silence, abstraction. ~ Renzo Piano
The so-called modern conveniences may, in fact, be extremely inconvenient - everything seems to exist as a distraction from any sort of deeper thought or contemplation.. ~ Michael Finkel
An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination. ~Eduard Hanslic
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. ~Aristotle
ABCs of Contemplative Pedagogy:
A: Approach to teaching and deep learning through focused attention, visualization, reflection, knowledge construction and heightened self-awareness
B: Basing content organization and learning that promotes attentiveness, challenges mind, develops mindfulness, leads to self-directed learning, fosters self-motivation and supports self-regulation
C: Complementing classroom instruction with meditation, breathing exercise, slow-silent reading, small byte learning, singing, artwork, mnemonics, multimodal learning, multiple intelligences based learning, and self-assessment
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