Epilogue: The Vast, Empty, Sky-Like Nature of Our Mind
If the example which our behavior exhibits today was the template that would imprint how the next generation, and therefore the future of humanity, will behave, what would you do differently? What will make us change and what kind of ...
If Not Teaching, Then What?
My daughter, Carly Elizabeth, is a regular five-year-old. She mastered the two most-challenging tasks she will ever encounter: standing on two legs, balancing and walking upright, and establishing the foundations for symbolic language by eighteen-months, without one second of formal ...
Media and The Mind
The question is; can we use image and information technologies without them infecting us and changing how we perceive, how we feel, what we think about, value and behave? The answer is no, so precede with caution. What most fail ...
Not More Imagination but Imagination of a Certain Kind
Sometime, perhaps 50,000 years ago or more, a relatively thin layer of neurons, emerging out of and covering the ancient sensory-motor and limbic-emotional brain centers, exploded – and along with it memory of the distant past and more revolutionary projections ...
What is the meaning of education?
If today is a typical day on planet Earth, we will lose 116 square miles of rainforest, or about an acre a second. We will lose another 72 square miles to encroaching deserts, as a result of human mismanagement and ...
Qualities, Capacities, Content and Curriculum
“Never memorize something that you can look up.” ― Albert Einstein Ask yourself: “If my child was one of the last living members of the human race, and he or she would carry the DNA memory that would give birth ...