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 [...]

Do you remember your first physical education lessons? I don’t. And I know why — I haven’t learnt anything from it. Teacher said “run” and we ran. Teacher said “chin-up” and we did it. Teacher said “play volleyball” and we started playing. There was no learning by any means, all these years. There was training. [...]

If you work in education you possibly have heard about Sudbury model of democratic schools. I write about it because today many people think that ideas on “rethinking education” had appeared only few years ago, together with new educational tools etc. It is not true in fact. Here is a quote from Wikipedia article: Sudbury [...]