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Why Do Schools Have To Be So Beige? Brooklyn Middle School Shows True Colors

CJ Westerberg, March 24, 2010 1:04 PM

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Previously published by The Daily Riff 3.10

We love this story.  Why do most schools look like left-over military bases?   So griege - a cross between biege and gray.

Or, just so colorless?

From Fast Company magazine, Paula Scher, from Pentagram, one of FC's Top Innovative Design Firms, takes a "biege middle school" in Brooklyn and transforms it into something vibrant . . . just like education should be.  Oh, that's right, education "should be" serious.

Check out story with mostly some great photos with link here

Makes ME happy - and you?

                                                                                                                  ---C.J.

 
  • This unique article makes me find that people have to take far more attention of themselves and each other.

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Now, keeping in mind these fourfold interests - interest in conversation, or communication; in inquiry, or finding out things; in making things or construction; and in artistic expression - we may say they are natural resources, the uninvested capital, upon the exercise of which depends the active growth of the child..
John Dewey, The School and Society, 1900
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