Home Schools, the New Private Schools, and Other Non-Traditional Learning By Oliver DeMille The current national commentary on American education is split by a major paradox. On the one hand, nearly all the experts are convinced that our schools must find a way to effectively and consistently teach the values and skills of innovation and … [Read more...]
Archives for November 2011
Sunday Poem: What to Remember When Waking by David Whyte
November 6, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Immerse yourself in the Sunday Poem archives here. What to Remember When Waking David Whyte In that first hardly noticed moment to which you wake, coming back to this life from the other more secret, moveable and frighteningly honest world where everything began, there is a small opening into the new day which closes the … [Read more...]
The Magic of Parkinson’s Law and Your Money
November 4, 2011 by Leave a Comment
By Kevin Mogavero Parkinson’s Law: “Work Expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.” In other words, we’ll take all the allotted time available to complete a task. If we’ve got an hour to do a task, we’ll take an hour to do it. If we’ve got a minute to do the task, we’ll get it done in a minute. For example, if … [Read more...]
Education Reform Won’t Work Anymore
November 2, 2011 by 1 Comment
By Oliver DeMille We Need a Transformation! A Review of Ken Robinson's Out of Our Minds: Learning to Be Creative This is an excellent book. Here are some of Robinson’s main points: We are living in a time of global change, whether we admit it or not. “As the world spins faster and faster, organizations everywhere say they need people … [Read more...]
