“If you are not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with something original. By the time kids become adults, the have lost that capacity.” Sir Ken Robinson
“If you are not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with something original. By the time kids become adults, the have lost that capacity.” Sir Ken Robinson
Current Educational Challenges
Current Educational Challenges
Changing Education Paradigms
Ken Robinson: English author, speaker and international adviser on education.
Do Schools Kill Kids Creativity?
Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.
Changing Education Paradigms
Ken Robinson: English author, speaker and international adviser on education.
Do Schools Kill Kids Creativity?
Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.
New Paradigms in Education
New Paradigms in Education
Bali
“Its curriculum combines the academic rigour expected of schools and institutions of higher learning with hands-on experiential learning within a Green Studies curriculum and a Creative Arts curriculum. It is preparing students to be critical and creative thinkers who are confident to champion the sustainability of the world and its environment. It is inspiring their thirst to know more, equipping them with appropriate and relevant knowledge, and nurturing their passion to influence change in the way we are managing this planet.”
United States
Consciousness Based Higher Education
“Many universities are adequate or better on covering the subject of study. The more progressive schools improve the process through innovative teaching techniques. But conventional universities fail to expand the learning ability of the student — to develop the consciousness of the knower.Without this third element, universities only provide information-based education — and the information is often forgotten once the course is over. What has been missing is a way for you to develop yourself from within — to improve your brain functioning and enliven your full potential, to expand your conscious capacity to learn”. Maharishi University in Fairfield, Iowa is one of the very few universities that offer one course per month classes so that students can focus and integrate knowledge more effectively. They are a drug free campus that puts an emphasis on the health and well being of their students.
Bhutan
In Bhutan, children are taught basic agricultural techniques and environmental protection alongside maths and science . A new national waste management program ensures that every piece of material used at the school is recycled. They have infused Gross National Happiness into their educational system by including such things as daily meditation sessions and soothing traditional music replacing the clang of the school bell. “An education doesn’t just mean getting good grades, it means preparing them to be good people,” says Choki Dukpa, a headteacher at one of their schools. “This next generation is going to face a very scary world as their environment changes and social pressures increase. We need to prepare them for this.”
India
“In Rajasthan, India, an extraordinary school teaches rural women and men — many of them illiterate — to become solar engineers, artisans, dentists and doctors in their own villages. It’s called the Barefoot College, and its founder, Bunker Roy, explains how it works. “
Green School
John Hardy talks about why he created a Green School in Bali. My Green School Dream TED Talk
India
“The most extraordinary knowledge and skills that very poor people have, [are] never identified, respected, applied on a large scale.”
Bali
“Its curriculum combines the academic rigour expected of schools and institutions of higher learning with hands-on experiential learning within a Green Studies curriculum and a Creative Arts curriculum. It is preparing students to be critical and creative thinkers who are confident to champion the sustainability of the world and its environment. It is inspiring their thirst to know more, equipping them with appropriate and relevant knowledge, and nurturing their passion to influence change in the way we are managing this planet.”
United States
Consciousness Based Higher Education
“Many universities are adequate or better on covering the subject of study. The more progressive schools improve the process through innovative teaching techniques. But conventional universities fail to expand the learning ability of the student — to develop the consciousness of the knower.Without this third element, universities only provide information-based education — and the information is often forgotten once the course is over. What has been missing is a way for you to develop yourself from within — to improve your brain functioning and enliven your full potential, to expand your conscious capacity to learn”. Maharishi University in Fairfield, Iowa is one of the very few universities that offer one course per month classes so that students can focus and integrate knowledge more effectively. They are a drug free campus that puts an emphasis on the health and well being of their students.
Bhutan
In Bhutan, children are taught basic agricultural techniques and environmental protection alongside maths and science . A new national waste management program ensures that every piece of material used at the school is recycled. They have infused Gross National Happiness into their educational system by including such things as daily meditation sessions and soothing traditional music replacing the clang of the school bell. “An education doesn’t just mean getting good grades, it means preparing them to be good people,” says Choki Dukpa, a headteacher at one of their schools. “This next generation is going to face a very scary world as their environment changes and social pressures increase. We need to prepare them for this.”
India
“In Rajasthan, India, an extraordinary school teaches rural women and men — many of them illiterate — to become solar engineers, artisans, dentists and doctors in their own villages. It’s called the Barefoot College, and its founder, Bunker Roy, explains how it works. “
Green School
John Hardy talks about why he created a Green School in Bali. My Green School Dream TED Talk
India
“The most extraordinary knowledge and skills that very poor people have, [are] never identified, respected, applied on a large scale.”
Creative Solutions
Creative Solutions
Meditation
In 2007, Visitacion Valley Middle School in the San Francisco area became the first public school nationwide to adopt a twice daily meditation program for their students. Since that time, they have seen a marked improvement in the level of violence, suspension rates and in grade point averages. It has become a game changer for many students who otherwise might have become dropouts according to David Kirp, a professor of public policy at UC Berkeley.
Discipline
Teachers and coaches can have an enormous impact on students giving them opportunities to both learn and serve the greater good
Meditation
In 2007, Visitacion Valley Middle School in the San Francisco area became the first public school nationwide to adopt a twice daily meditation program for their students. Since that time, they have seen a marked improvement in the level of violence, suspension rates and in grade point averages. It has become a game changer for many students who otherwise might have become dropouts according to David Kirp, a professor of public policy at UC Berkeley.
Discipline
Teachers and coaches can have an enormous impact on students giving them opportunities to both learn and serve the greater good
Thoughts on Education
Thoughts on Education
“Don’t just teach your children to read, teach them to question what they read.
Teach them to question everything.”
George Carlin
Kids Speak
When 13 year-old Logan LaPlante grows up, he wants to be happy and healthy. He discusses how hacking his education is helping him achieve this goal.
George Carlin
….on the “American Dream” and why it is
important have a well informed and educated people with good critical thinking skills.
“Books are better than television, the internet, or the computer for educating and maintaining freedom. Books matter because they state ideas and then attempt to thoroughly prove them. They have an advantage precisely because they slow down the process, allowing the reader to internalize, respond, react and transform. The ideas in books matter because time is taken to establish truth, and because the reader must take the time to consider each idea and either accept it or, if he rejects it, to think through sound reasons for doing so. A nation of people who write and read is a nation with the attention span to earn an education and free society if they choose.”
“Don’t just teach your children to read, teach them to question what they read.
Teach them to question everything.”
George Carlin
Kids Speak
When 13 year-old Logan LaPlante grows up, he wants to be happy and healthy. He discusses how hacking his education is helping him achieve this goal.
George Carlin
….on the “American Dream” and why it is
important have a well informed and educated people with good critical thinking skills.
“Books are better than television, the internet, or the computer for educating and maintaining freedom. Books matter because they state ideas and then attempt to thoroughly prove them. They have an advantage precisely because they slow down the process, allowing the reader to internalize, respond, react and transform. The ideas in books matter because time is taken to establish truth, and because the reader must take the time to consider each idea and either accept it or, if he rejects it, to think through sound reasons for doing so. A nation of people who write and read is a nation with the attention span to earn an education and free society if they choose.”