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The Fallacy of Due Dates
I’ve written about this notion before – the idea that time IS the currency of education. The more time we have, the more we can learn, and in most cases, we never feel as though we have enough time to teach and learn all we want*. But, Seth Godin’s post this morning, along with the [...]
Teach Toward Value
As I drove to work one day a few years back I read the following on the billboard of a local drug store: Sweatshirts $5 or 3 for $10 And then as I remembered that the middle school in my district still required every 8th grade student to make a sweatshirt, I thought: Why are [...]
Should We Be Good at School?
Based on this snip by Will Richardson today, I researched Seth Godin’s book, Linchpin: Are you Indispensable. The following segment grabbed my attention enough to make download the book to my iPad: ‘I am Good at School.’ This is a fundamentally different statement from ‘I did well in school and therefore I will do a [...]
Unreasonable
Seth Godin is a prolific writer and thinker. From his official webpage, his writing is described to be, “about the post-industrial revolution, the way ideas spread, marketing, quitting, leadership and most of all, changing everything.” He is truly an “outside-of-the-box thinker” and gifted writer. While he often writes about marketing and business, his thoughts translate [...]
