Wit & Wisdom
April 2010
What If We Trained Teachers Like We Trained Doctors?
NPR's "Morning Edition" Questions Teacher Colleges With Lack Of Apprenticeship Read more
Sir Ken Robinson: So Many "Are Prevented From Finding Their True Talents"
Education Processes At Fault. We Must "Radically Transform" Schools. See New CNN 3-Minute Video. Read more
The College MIA List #6: Those Who Dropped Out Or Never Attended
* Read More About the Steve Wozniak Relationship (Rift?) With Steve Jobs, Fellow M.I.A. In This Fascinating Piece From Slate: "The iPad is Steve Jobs' Final Victory Over The Company's Co-founder Steve Wozniak." Read more
COLLEGE MIA'S #4
See The Updated List -Not Everyone Is College Material. Those Who Dropped Out Or Never Entered . . . Read more
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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