QotD

With thanks to Debra Kay Logan and Wikiquote:

I don't mind your thinking slowly; I mind your publishing faster than you think.

-Wolfgang Pauli, as quoted in The Harvest of a Quiet Eye : A Selection of Scientific Quotations (1977) by Alan Lindsay Mackay, p. 117.

Sir Ken Robinson: Bring on the learning revolution! | Video on TED.com

Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity | Video on TED.com (2006)

Have you seen Sir Ken Robinson's 2006 talk? Here's the About text for the 2010 sequel: "In this poignant, funny follow-up to his fabled 2006 talk, Sir Ken Robinson makes the case for a radical shift from standardized schools to personalized learning -- creating conditions where kids' natural talents can flourish."

Sir Ken Robinson: Bring on the learning revolution! | Video on TED.com (2010)

...education, in a way,dislocates very many people from their natural talents. And human resources are like natural resources; they're often buried deep. You have to go looking for them. They're not just lying around on the surface. You have to create the circumstances where they show themselves. And you might imagine education would be the way that happens. But too often, it's not.... One of the real challenges is to innovate fundamentally in education. Innovation is hard because it means doing something that people don't find very easy for the most part. It means challenging what we take for granted, things that we think are obvious. The great problem for reform or transformation is the tyranny of common sense -- things that people think, "Well, it can't be done any other way because that's the way it's done." ... We have to recognize that human flourishing is not a mechanical process, it's an organic process. And you cannot predict the outcome of human development; all you can do, like a farmer, is create the conditions under which they will begin to flourish.... every day, everywhere, our children spread their dreams beneath our feet. And we should tread softly.

A good policy for a new school year in a building under renovation:

Or, really, anywhere and anytime. Let's be part of the solution.

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