Sublime

JACK OF ROUGH DRAFTS, MASTER OF CRAFTS When I asked a handful of education pioneers to name the best teacher of rethinking they’ve ever encountered, I kept hearing the same name: Ron Berger.

as the playwright and Czech president Václav Havel once put it, wants to be born: “I think there are good reasons for suggesting that the modern age has ended. Today, many things indicate that we are going through a transitional period, when it seems that something is on the way out and something else is painfully being born. It is as if something

Through the writing of our students we are reminded of their individuality. We are reminded, whatever subject we are charged with teaching, that our ultimate charge is to produce broadly educated men and women with a sense of stewardship for the world they live in.

The book concludes with an epilogue, “u.school: A Movement in the Making.” In it are ideas about and a broad plan for a global action university that puts the above principles into practice by integrating science, consciousness, and profound social change.

John Kobara, when “a very, very thoughtful person asked me, ‘What if you had ten years to live? Would you keep doing what you’re doing?’” That

a distortion of my true self-as must be the case when one lives from the outside in, not the inside out. I

He recognized with authentic realism that anyone who permits another to determine the quality of his inner life gives into the hands of…

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