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Education; Vertical Thinking – Lateral Thinking
“You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper.” Edward DeBono In the last post “Race to NOwhere – NOWhere” our students are falling asleep in their one dimensional...
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Education; The Lost Art of Engaging Students in Public Education and...
“No one is thinking if everyone is thinking alike.” General George S. Patten, Jr. There is a high school in a poor section of the Bronx called the Theater Arts Production Company School. Report card...
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Education; Critical Thinking vs Rote Memory in American Education
"Imagination is more important than knowledge." Albert Einstein We have an American educational system that languishes under the premise that if a student repeats something many times he will learn it....
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Education; The Disenthrallment of the Quiet Past
I was reading an article on manufacturing in America in the Wall Street Journal by Matt Ridley. It discussed the idea of “Disenthrallment”. In Abraham Lincoln’s 1862 message to Congress he speaks of...
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Education in America; Wisconsin – The Real Story
Here’s what we know that will make our schools better: 1. Improve the quality of teaching. 2. Personalize the educational experience of children to meet diverse needs and interests. 3. Treat...
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Education, Lateral Thinking and the Google Ngram Viewer
How many books are there in the world? The answer: 129,864,880 books, more or less. Google is, of course, in the process of digitizing many of the world’s books. Since 2004, Google has digitized more...
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Education; The Kahn Academy – Educating the World
How about this for a concept – have the students do their class work at home and their homework in the classroom! WOW, that’s an amazing idea and it is what Sal Khan dreamed up when he was tutoring his...
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TED – Ideas Worth Spreading, Deb Roy
“Imagine if you could record your life, everything you said, everything you did, available in a perfect memory store at your finger tips so you could go back and find memorable moments and relive them...
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What is Classical Education?
I was preparing to write a post on Classical Education when I went back and looked at “The Well Trained Mind”, published first edition in 1999. I then went to the Word Press blog called “The Well...
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A Musical Fix for American Schools – Wall Street Journal Article
Our sons were raised with music, violin lessons at age 5 for one and piano lessons at age 6.5 for the other. This topic occupies a Chapter in my book. Music is lyrical, mathematical, calming, mind...
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