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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
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
Focusing on Why Education Exists
The purpose of education is to make life better, for individuals and for the world. If education does not serve this purpose, it should not be taking place. A great deal of education in the contemporary world is, by this … Continue reading
The Purpose of Education 