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Section 1: Introduction
My name is Reinald Yoder and I am a teacher of middle- and high- school students at Marist School. I serve as a teacher of computer science, technology and mathematics and relish facilitating student discovery and creativity-- particularly using programming. Nothing is more gratifying than seeing the results of student hard-work and ingenuity.

Section 2: Quotes & Proverbs for Educational Philosophy
**// Below are a collection of quotes that resonate with my teaching style and philosophy. //**
 * 1)  “Education is what you have left after you forget everything you learned in school” – Albert Einstein
 * 2)  “We have to reinvent the wheel every once in a while, not because we need a lot of wheels, but because we need a lot of inventors.” – Bruce Joyce
 * 3)  “Let us teach guessing” – George Polya
 * 4)  “We talk too much; we should talk less and draw more.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
 * 5)  “If you do something once, people call it an accident. If you do it twice, they call it a coincidence. But do it three times and you’ve just proven a natural law.” –Grace Murray Hopper
 * 6)  Einstein was once asked, “What is your phone number?”. He answered, “I don’t know, but I know where to find it when I need it.”
 * 7)  “It’s amazing what one can do when one doesn’t know what one can’t do.” – Garfield the Cat
 * 8)  “Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.” – Anna Freud
 * 9)  “You can observe a lot just by watching.” - Yogi Berra
 * 10)  “It takes a whole village to raise a child” – Nigerian Saying
 * 11)  “A mind that is stretched by a new idea can never go back to its original dimensions.” –Oliver Wendell Holmes
 * 12)  “To be successful, the first thing to do is to fall in love with your work.” – Sister Mary Lauretta
 * 13)  “The purpose of education … is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for themselves, to make their own decisions.” – James Baldwin
 * 14)  “People who are only good with hammers see every problem as a nail.” –Abraham Maslow
 * 15)  “To try and to fail is not laziness.” - Sierra Leone saying.
 * 16)  “Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.” – Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
 * 17)  “That’s the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they’ve been all along.” – Madeleine L’Engle
 * 18)  “Some of us are timid. We think we have something to lose so we don’t try for the next hill.” - Maya Angelou
 * 19)  “Education is what allows you to get into more intelligent trouble.” – Anonymous
 * 20)  “If you can only find it, there is a reason for everything. – Traditional saying.
 * 21)  “Only the most foolish of mice would hide in a cat’s ear. But only the wisest of cats would think to look there.” – Andrew Mercer
 * 22)  “If you have made mistakes… there is always another chance for you… you may have a fresh start at any moment you choose, for this thing we call “failure” is not the falling down, but the staying down.” –Mary Pickford
 * 23)  “You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.” – Sidonie Gabriella Collette
 * 24)  “Imagination is the highest kite we fly.” – Lauren Bacall
 * 25)  “Research is formalized curiousity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.” - Zora Neale Hurston
 * 26)  WDYDWYDKWTD? (Acronym for: What do you do when you don’t know what to do?)
 * 27)  “Give a person a fish and they will eat for a day. Teach a person to fish and they will eat for a lifetime.” - Proverb
 * 28) “You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink.” – Proverb

Section 3: Burning Question
**What is the air-speed velocity of a laden swallow at sea-level?**

Section 4: Web 2.0 Stuff


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