Week ten: Nov, 29-Dec. 5, 2012 • "Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.” ~Leonardo da Vinci
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Week nine: Nov. 22-28, 2012 • Education is in the heart of the listener, not in the voice of the teacher.”
~Unnamed student from New American Schoolhouse video
Week eight: Nov.15-21, 2012 • "How often are we assigned reading, or do we assign reading, for the sake of reading the information without entering into the minds (or wondering with) the writers of the text.” ~Dana Ulveland, Unit 8
Week seven, Nov. 8-14, 2012 • "The young people who drop out of the inner-city schools are doing the right thing, because there’s nothing there for them to learn, and the curriculum that is mandated by the state is ridiculous and trivial in terms of what a young person can do." ~Leon Botstein, president, Bard College
Week six, Nov. 1-7, 2012 • "Where is wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?” ~T.S. Eliot
Week five: Oct. 25-31, 2012 • "Every little flower of curiosity is crushed by society itself." ~Albert Einstein
Week four: Oct -18-24, 2012 • "Loving something drives achievement in all kinds of extraordinary ways and in all sorts of unexpected directions." ~Sir Ken Robinson
Week three: Oct. 11-17, 2012 • "The main thing we learn when we struggle to learn is that learning is a struggle." ~Frank Smith
Week two: Oct. 4-10, 2012 • "Socrates challenged the status quo and ended up being sentenced to death." ~Dana Ulveland, Unit 2
Week one: Sept. 27-Oct.3, 2012 • "Success or failure in education can affect our image of ourselves for life. Those who don't show academic ability in school are often branded as less able." ~Sir Ken Robinson
healing power
listening
historically speaking
a broken system S
we are who we think we are, aren't we?
high tech saturation
pushing boundaries
resistance
status quo
first thoughts
