Tags
- African-American
- apple
- Arnold Kling
- artistry
- Be the Solution
- book
- Bronze Doors Academy
- Burt Kaufman
- communities
- conscious culture
- creative destruction
- creativity
- critical thinking
- CSMP
- Daniel Pink
- Democrats
- design
- division of labor
- education
- engagement
- entrepreneurship
- evaluation
- evolutionary psychology
- experience
- flow
- Gary Lamb
- government funding
- happiness
- heroism
- homeschooling
- human development
- IMACS
- innovation
- IQ
- Julian Jaynes
- Ken Robinson
- Luma Institute
- Malcolm Gladwell
- missing institution
- Montessori
- MVHS
- Native American
- Papert
- pleasure
- positive psychology
- public schools
- Ready for Work
- reality tv
- Reggio Emilia
- religion
- SAT
- school choice
- schools
- silicon valley of education
- Socrates
- Socratic discussions
- socratic practice
- specialization
- Steve Jobs
- tai chi
- talks
- teachers' unions
- TED talks
- TEDx
- test scores
- The Missing Institution
- Thomas Jefferson
- tragedy
- tuition tax credits
- virtue
- vouchers
- Waldorf
- well-being
- Wozniak
- yoga
-
Recent Posts
- Are Sweden’s For-Profit Voucher-Funded Schools that Promote Creativity the Future of Learning?
- The Conscious Creation of Culture as the Goal of Education
- Learnable Intelligence and Taking Refined Pedagogical Practices Seriously
- Aligning Value Creation with Profitability Across Society
- If We Had a Way to Increase IQ and Develop the Prefrontal Cortex of Inner City Youth Would We Implement It?
Archives
Categories
Meta
Monthly Archives: September 2011
John Lennon understood that the Purpose of Education is Happiness and Well-Being for All
Attributed to John Lennon. Let me know if anyone can discover an exact source.
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged happiness, John Lennon, purpose of education, well-being
Leave a comment
Excessive Medication, Mental Health, Evolutionary Psychology, and The Creation of New Cultures
John Horgan, in The Chronicle of Higher Education, on “Are Psychiatric Medicines Making Us Sicker?” “As recently as the 1950s, Whitaker contends, the four major mental disorders—depression, anxiety disorder, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia—often manifested as episodic and “self limiting”; that is, … Continue reading
From Native American Education to the Creation of Conscious Culture through Educational Innovation
From 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, by Charles C. Mann (in the paragraph below, “Dawnland” refers to the Massachusetts coast): “Boys like Tisquantum explored the countryside, swam in the ponds at the south end of the harbor, … Continue reading
Thomas Jefferson on Public Education: “To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical”
Many people believe that the American founding fathers believed that public education was crucial for democracy, and thus that “we” have an obligation to maintain the government-financed, teachers’ union controlled system that we have today. David W. Kirkpatrick is a … Continue reading
Why do we see honorable characters in fantasy novels but not in reality television?
In reading about the concept of honor in Japanese society at Bronze Doors last week I noticed, as is typically the case, that the students are fascinated. Adolescents, I find, crave a sense of honor. I asked them if characters … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged adolescence, Bronze Doors Academy, character, conscious culture, education, fantasy, honor, pleasure, reality tv, vanity, virtue
Leave a comment
Bronze Doors Academy Launched
I just spent a couple of weeks in Austin (with a side trip on Free Cities to Honduras) to help Ariel and Lucas Miller launch The Bronze Doors Academy. In addition to cool courses such as stop-motion animation and learning … Continue reading
Education and Happiness, Tango and T’ai Chi
I just saw a Facebook photo of a former student of mine who has become deeply involved in Tango dancing, traveling around the country to compete in contests, traveling to Argentina to learn from experts, clearly happy and delighted in … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged academic skills, alcohol, Atheneum, drugs, education, extracurriculars, flow, gender relations, happiness, mountain biking, MVHS, pot, practices, sports, tai chi, tango, TEDx, well-being, yoga
Leave a comment
Socratic Practice as Disruptive Technology
My TEDx UFM talk is out, “Socratic Practice as Disruptive Technology.” I refer early on to Malcolm Gladwell’s Outlier’s regarding the Korean Airline crash, then to Sophocles’ Antigone, Socrates, Julian Jaynes’ The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the … Continue reading
Why in a Sane World, Educators = Entrepreneurs of Happiness and Well-Being
In this TEDx talk, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, originator of the flow concept, summarizes the results of more than a decade of research on “positive psychology.” The conclusion is that there are three primary sources of happiness, reliable predictors of a sense … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Csikszentmihalyi, education, engagement, flow, happiness, meaning, meditation, mindfulness, Montessori, pleasure, politics, positive psychology, religion, socratic practice, spirituality, tai chi, TEDx, well-being, yoga
2 Comments
