a little of this and a little of that.

We are not an island.
Kristi Rible Kristi Rible

We are not an island.

Growing up in the U.S., we rarely talked about Canada in school. In fact, I often joke with my Canadian friends that, when I was young, I didn’t even know that there was anything north of the United States but I did know about Africa. All of our classroom maps depicted the U.S. as if a floating land mass surrounded by sea

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One-sidedness is rarely a good thing.
Kristi Rible Kristi Rible

One-sidedness is rarely a good thing.

"...this STEM-only mindset is all wrong. The main problem is that it encourages students to approach their education vocationally—to think just in terms of the jobs they’re preparing for....If we want to prepare students to solve large-scale human problems ... we must push them to widen, not narrow, their education and interests..."

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More alike than different.
Kristi Rible Kristi Rible

More alike than different.

There is no one “right” way of doing things, there is only the way of accepting our differences and similarities, and taking the time to learn “the why”. When we take the time to understand … to become culturally literate … we find that more often than not, we are far more alike than different.

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