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Sir Ken Robinson (TED.com) - 0 views

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    Why don't we get the best out of people? Sir Ken Robinson argues that it's because we've been educated to become good workers, rather than creative thinkers. Students with restless minds and bodies -- far from being cultivated for their energy and curiosity -- are ignored or even stigmatized, with terrible consequences. "We are educating people out of their creativity," Robinson says. It's a message with deep resonance. Robinson's TEDTalk has been distributed widely around the Web since its release in June 2006. The most popular words framing blog posts on his talk? "Everyone should watch this."
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Leadership -Dr Shailesh Thaker - 0 views

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    Dr. Shailesh Thaker, the world renowned Management Thinker and Management Guru, has motivated millions of professionals from various fields through his workshops.
Damian Rivlin

Larry Sanger Blog » An example of educational anti-intellectualism - 0 views

  • In other words, if you strip away the edu-speak, Wheeler is saying that students should be taught a lot less declarative knowledge. Since this is what we ordinarily mean by “knowledge,” we can put it even more simply: Wheeler is opposed to teachers imparting knowledge.
  • 1. Much of the declarative knowledge that matters, and which requires time and energy to learn, is not of the sort that can be gained by looking it up in Google.  You can read some quick analysis of the causes of the Great Depression, but you won’t really know them until you’ve studied the subject.
  • 2. Most accepted knowledge doesn’t change, even over a lifetime.  Fine, Pluto’s no longer a planet.  The others are.  99% of what we knew about the solar system 50 years ago has not been disconfirmed.  Most new knowledge adds detail; it does not render old knowledge useless.  (Besides, the professor would not be able to cite this as an example if he had not learned that Pluto was a planet; he couldn’t be an articulate, plugged-in thinker without his “useless” declarative knowledge, which he could count on other educated people sharing.)
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  • Besides, not only has declarative knowledge mostly not changed, procedural knowledge changes much faster–which is, of course, why it was not taught in schools, for a long time, apart from a few classes.  Learning the specific skills for the work world were, and largely still are, learned on the job.  So let’s see, which would have been better for me to learn back in 1985, when I was 17: all the ins and outs of WordPerfect and BASIC, or U.S. History?  There should be no question at all: what I learned about history will remain more or less the same, subject to a few corrections; skills in WordPerfect and BASIC are not longer needed.
  •  Here I hint at another argument for declarative knowledge, E.D. Hirsch’s: it provides us an absolutely essential common culture,
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    very interesting article - what do you think Ian?
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Business Consultancy India - 0 views

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    Dr. Shailesh Thaker, the world renowned Management Thinker and Management Guru, has motivated millions of professionals from various fields through his workshops.
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HRD Audit - Dr. Shailesh Thaker - 0 views

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    Train The Trainer - HR Training in India for HR and Business Professionals by Dr. Shailesh Thaker, renowned Management Guru, Management Thinker, Keynote Speaker and Motivational Coach from Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India.
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Business Consultancy India - Dr. Shailesh Thaker - 0 views

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    Train The Trainer - HR Training in India for HR and Business Professionals by Dr. Shailesh Thaker, renowned Management Guru, Management Thinker, Keynote Speaker and Motivational Coach from Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India.
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Peter Senge and the theory and practice of the learning organization - 0 views

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    This gives a great overvies of Peter Senge's vision for schools through his framework in the book, "The Fifth Discipline"
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