Sir Ken Robinson outlines 3 principles crucial for the human mind to flourish – and how current education culture works against them. In a funny, stirring talk…
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Trivia whiz Ken Jennings has made a career as a keeper of facts; he holds the longest winning streak in history on the U.S. game show Jeopardy….
Clifford Stoll could talk about the atmosphere of Jupiter. Or hunting KGB hackers. Or Klein bottles, computers in classrooms, the future. But he’s not going to. Which…
Mr. Chomsky gives to us an eloquent historical, present and future perspectives as to the public educational system in the US how he believes it has been…
Expansion of online education will bring about dramatic changes in global education system in the nearest future. This topic was discussed by the participants Philanthropic Roundtable organized…
Teacher quality has long been recognized as a key determinant of pupil attainment. With Ofsted recently signalling changes to the inspection criteria, teacher quality is once again…
Dean Brenzel argues that not only can reading the great classics like Plato’s Republic and Dante’s Inferno enrich your education, it can actually make your life better….
What will historians say about us 250 years from now? Larry Summers, former Harvard University president and economic adviser to President Obama, asks this question in a…
A free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere: this is the goal of the Khan Academy, a passion project that grew from an ex-engineer and hedge funder’s online…
The Ultimate History Lesson is a 5 hour course, illustrating the cause and effect relationship of how Americans became incoherent, and thus how the American dream was…
Noam Chomsky, a world-renowned linguist, intellectual and political activist, spoke at the University of Arizona. His lecture, Education: For Whom and For What? featured a talk on…
