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Education: The tension of lifelong learning
I am firmly in the camp that believes that lifelong learning is directly linked to living life to the fullest. I believe that, when we stop learning, we start dying. That tension has come to a certain head for me in the past couple of years as I have discovered that I have slowed down […] Continue reading
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Tagged intentional learning, lifelong learning, random learning, Self-education
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Education: More on rethinking education.
The last time I posted to this blog, I opined that I believed it was time for us to rethink the purpose of education. More than two years later, I am more convinced than ever that premise is true. From my view, the modern education system is a weird chimera of the classical notion of […] Continue reading
Posted in Education, Ideas, Philosophy
Tagged models, Reform, rethinking, Uncategorized
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Education: Perhaps the answer is to rethink what we mean by education
Recent events have spawned what has been for me some vitriolic but otherwise meaningless debates about education in the United States. The debates have been vitriolic because the sides involved have dug into positions that are primarily rhetorical in nature and have been meaningless because most of the rhetoric has little to do with how […] Continue reading
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Tagged Debates, Definitions, Education Models, fundamentals, questions
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The strange reality of getting what you want
I’ve wanted a library, lab, and studio since I knew what those three things were. In fact, one of my earliest verifiable geek memories comes from when I was about seven and I discovered a chemistry set in the Sears … Continue reading
Science and Technology: The science of do as I say
For whatever reason, I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about science recently, especially as it applies to getting kids interested in science and keeping them interested. One of the points I keep coming back to in this thinking is how often science is sold to kids in a very narrow and limited view of […] Continue reading
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Tagged ideas, kids, preconceptions, science, technology
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