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Philip R. Theibert • How to Give a Damn Good Speech (30-Minute Solutions)
accessibility of higher education in the U.S.
Gerry Valentine • The Thriving Mindset: Tools for Empowerment in a Disruptive World
Here’s the big problem we face, both as individuals and as a society: we do a very poor job preparing people for a changing world, especially for the kind of disruptive change we have now.
Gerry Valentine • The Thriving Mindset: Tools for Empowerment in a Disruptive World
Berkeley is a microcosm of the intrusion of corporations into education. Education, at least an education that challenges assumptions and teaches students to be self-critical, has been sacrificed in a Faustian bargain. Charles Schwartz, an emeritus professor of physics, drew up a chart that showed that in the last fourteen years, from 1993 to 2007,
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experimenting
Alan J. Roxburgh • Joining God, Remaking Church, Changing the World
high achievement environments,
Chad Sanders • Black Magic: What Black Leaders Learned from Trauma and Triumph
Dewey’s disciple and successor in that post, William Kilpatrick, continued the tradition. Dewey’s protégé noted that schools should produce ‘better citizens, alert, able to think and act, too intelligently critical to be easily hoodwinked either by politicians or patent-medicines, self-reliant, ready of adaptation to the new social conditions that
... See moreGary Thomas • Education: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
What problem would you wish to bring into this clarity?