{"id":2231,"date":"2016-12-07T10:56:17","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T14:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=2231"},"modified":"2016-12-07T14:02:54","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T18:02:54","slug":"circle-structure-this-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=2231","title":{"rendered":"Circle structure this AM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>How do you create your own structure?  Can you think of a time when you structured your own work\/project with great success?  <\/strong> <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit, and psychology helps us greatly at this point. We speak, it is true, of good habits and of bad habits; but, when people use the word &#8216;habit,&#8217; in the majority of instances it is a bad habit which they have in mind. They talk of the smoking-habit and the swearing-habit and the drinking-habit, but not of the abstention-habit or the moderation-habit or the courage-habit. But the fact is that our virtues are habits as much as our vices. All our life, so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits,\u2014practical, emotional, and intellectual,\u2014systematically organized for our weal or woe, and bearing us irresistibly toward our destiny, whatever the latter may be.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nWhat is the relationship between habits and structure?   How do they \u201cmake\u201d each other?  <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Student quotes:<br \/>\nSH: If you mix good habits with structure, you get a good process.<br \/>\nVG: Habits make a system and a system is a structure.  Structure forces you to develop habits .<br \/>\nHG:  What you&#8217;re used to doing will shape the things you do and the way your work flows and the steps you take.<br \/>\nLM:  What you do on a daily basis creates a relationship with you and habit.<br \/>\nAM: Habits can create structure; if you have a habit of doing the same thing every day then you have structured your day around that habit.   <\/p>\n<p>Yesterday\u2019s circle:<br \/>\nThis leads to a fourth maxim. Don\u2019t preach too much to your pupils or abound in good talk in the abstract. Lie in wait rather for the practical opportunities, be prompt to seize those as they pass, and thus at one operation get your pupils both to think, to feel, and to do. The strokes of behavior are what give the new set to the character, and work the good habits into its organic tissue. Preaching and talking too soon become an ineffectual bore. <\/p>\n<p>Highpoint of my year:  Being called an ineffectual bore ten minutes after doing this activity. <\/p>\n<p>Thank you Gerry Weiss.  I hope you&#8217;re well.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do you create your own structure? Can you think of a time when you structured your own work\/project with great success? It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit, and psychology helps us greatly at this point. 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