There are two visions of what education can provide, as a service: it can provide the opportunity for integral cultivation of the full human self, with the aim of yielding productive, conscientious citizens of a dynamic, free society; or, it can produce workers to take their place in a faceless workforce, where individual rights are [...]

Great points Joseph, Our education today is severely lacking. Our curriculum’s are created where in each grade you learn a little, don’t know why, but are told to learn up to a certain point, and then you get the rest in the next grade. It’s a linear style education which doesn’t offer students the environments [...]

Education spending R.O.I. Education funding is one of the highest-return forms of investment of public funds in the lives of ordinary people, helping to create great opportunities for economic improvement and ultimately generating significant increases in tax revenue for states and municipalities. The other side of this coin is that steep cuts to…[Read more]

The idea of privileging not only informational freedom but the ability to apply a critical eye to the information one deals with means we could think about the role media play in the educational process. We could look at ways to license media content and to build a media studies component of basic education into [...]

The 21st-century “renaissance”, if there is one underway, must include the favoring of methods of education that allow students to learn about judging quality of information and checking source material. If we cannot read critically and intelligently, we cannot be whole people in the Information Age.

Amen to that. Daniel Pink amply addresses the threats to American viability in the world market in A Whole New Mind: Why Right Brain Thinkers will Rule the World, or something to that effect, citing “automation” and “asian” as serious rivals of the rote educational models being implemented in classrooms nation-wide. The NSSE, an annual [...]

The bases for sustainable economic and educational prosperity are: 1) informational freedom; 2) the ability to think critically; 3) an understanding of the distinction between truth and presented fact; 4) an ethical approach to knowing about others and otherness. Reason, the self-starting process of asking what we know and how we know it, must be [...]