This one is easy…
learning is what I did!
A need existed… I found multiple ways to meet that need, including connecting (multiple times… too many to quantify) with a teacher. I asked questions. I researched and communicated with others. I thought. I took risks, and fixed mistakes. (I made new mistakes!) I reevaluated and revised. [...]
Entries from December 2005
Question 3… What is learning?
December 18th, 2005 · 1 Comment
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Question 2 … What is education?
December 18th, 2005 · 3 Comments
As I usually do when I initially think the question is simple (it isn’t!), I headed off to Google. I discovered the Greek concept of Paideia. (too many vowels!) I learned that, in this philosophy, the goal of education is not mastery of subject matter, but of one’s person. Subject matter is simply the tool. [...]
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Question 1 … Why?
December 18th, 2005 · 1 Comment
I could be flippant and say, “because” or I could respond in the manner in which I usually responded to my children, “because I have the keys.” This short response will not do justice to this question… this question could (should?) be the focus of an entire semester’s worth of learning.
How have the trappings [...]
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