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The Conscious Creation of Culture as the Goal of Education
I live in a world that is so normal to me that I forget that even most educated people don’t live in this world. I rarely watch television: I don’t watch sports, news, political debates or campaigns, advertising, celebrity gossip, … Continue reading
Learnable Intelligence and Taking Refined Pedagogical Practices Seriously
I recently wrote Charles Manski regarding his article “Genes, Eyeglasses, and Social Policy,” in which he argues that regardless of the heritability of IQ, that fact is irrelevant to social policy, much as the heritability of genetic defects in vision … Continue reading
If We Had a Way to Increase IQ and Develop the Prefrontal Cortex of Inner City Youth Would We Implement It?
One of the founders of Montessori MadMen, a group of fathers who are passionate about promoting Montessori education, loved “The Creation of Conscious Culture through Educational Innovation” but was concerned that in an education market, the poor would be underserved: I … Continue reading
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How the Endless Process of Division of Labor and the Entrepreneurial Identification of New Niches Would Transform Education If We Allowed it To Do So
I don’t actually have time to write a complete account of “How the Endless Process of Division of Labor and the Entrepreneurial Identification of New Niches Would Transform Education If We Allowed it To Do So” this morning, but I … Continue reading
In Praise of Seagram, Fighting, and Happiness
While creating a Socratic middle school program at an inner city Anchorage public school, one of the students I was working with was Seagram. Already by 7th grade, 13 or so years old, he was six foot two or more, … Continue reading
How to Make Learning Almost as Much Fun as Sex – So that Teenagers LOVE Doing It!
I’ve often said that leading Socratic discussions is my second most favorite activity (apparently some people enjoy exercising more than I do). I’ve had teenagers say, after spending a year in my Socratic classes rather than a regular English class, … 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
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
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Tagged Csikszentmihalyi, education, engagement, flow, happiness, meaning, meditation, mindfulness, Montessori, pleasure, politics, positive psychology, religion, socratic practice, spirituality, tai chi, TEDx, well-being, yoga
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After Four Months of Socratic Practice in an Inner City Classroom
A follow-up to “The First Three Days of Socratic Practice in an Inner City Classroom” for those who read it: Four Months Later Four months later the classroom has been transformed. We have a group of business leaders, mostly women, … Continue reading
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Tagged critical thinking, evaluation, innovation, IQ, Ready for Work, SAT, socratic practice, test scores, The Missing Institution
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The Missing Institution: Why We Don’t Have a Silicon Valley of Education
About eight years ago, while I was still the principal of Moreno Valley High School, I completed a 400 page manuscript on my experiences in K-12 education to date. I hired a professional editor to pull it together for publication … Continue reading
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Tagged book, education, innovation, missing institution, silicon valley of education, socratic practice
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The Purpose of Education 