I am what’s wrong with education…again!
In the last installment, I talked a big game about how a perfect storm of factors (including my own jackassery) came together to compromise the quality and result of my K-12 education. Long story short, I didn’t come away with a working picture of the world and I didn’t get good at the one skill that school really should teach: learning. Part two: What it’s supposed to mean. Somehow, I ended up at Cal State Northridge. This is not... Read More
I am what’s wrong with education, part 1.
I’ve been thinking about education for a really long time. This is partly because I am the daughter of an academic, and partly because I’ve had quite the interesting ride along the way to becoming the perfect exemplar of what’s wrong with education. Two pivotal components of education are what you learn and what it’s supposed to mean once you’ve completed a given phase of school. My thought here is that both are failing in spectacular... Read More
No Right Brain Left Behind
I submitted a proposal for increasing creativity in our educational system here. If you like it, please click on the heart! Your vote counts, and I thank you. Read More
Sir Ken talks about creativity
I have such an edu-crush on Ken Robinson. Read More
Mark to Market
Actual tweet from a college football player, whose name I will keep to myself: “I do not want to go to school.” As a rabid consumer of college football and active Twitter-er*, I follow lots of “student athletes”, and courtesy of the ubiquitous re-tweet, am privy to the thoughts of many more I do not actively keep up with. What I notice is by and large is most of these guys hate school. Hate it. They tweet in sub-4th grade... Read More
