Education

I have a tricky question for you: when transforming education should we also transform religious education? How about bringing in more creativity, more freedom, more revolutionary ideas, innovations, radical rethinking and paradigm shifts? What do you think? Share your vision, please. (I sincerely wonder what Sir Ken would answer.) Our system of public education is [...]

A few links about education. Worth looking at. Sudbury Schools: Rethinking Education, for a Change – great post and thoughtful discussion Rethinking Schools – publisher of educational materials Creativity is Dead, Ken. . . – clever critics on teaching creativity in classrooms A Question of Creativity – another discussion on creativity in classrooms Education Reform [...]

Good thing about different dimensions is that they do not complete with each other. It is meaningless to compare body temperature with colour of the eyes or with the language one speaks, isn’t it? And it is meaningless to deny multidimensional nature of things. But we do. Imagination and reasoning are different dimensions. Creativity and [...]

We own our discoveries. Discoveries stay while perceptions are already gone. Understanding is always a discovery. We value years of experience because we implicitly (or explicitly for some HR people) feel that probability of discovering and understanding the things increases with years. I remember one mathematical analysis lecture where professor told us the truth: he [...]

How to change the world choking with human-made problems? I often hear smart people talking about terminal decisions, about physical elimination of “bad companies” and certain people. They believe that it will change the world, that the end justifies the means. That we have to shed blood over this paradise on Earth. What a terrible [...]