jueves, febrero 15, 2007

Disciplina < Curiosidad

"No amount of discipline can replace genuine curiosity."

miércoles, noviembre 15, 2006

Grades don't measure anything other than your relevant obedience to a manager.

Excelente entrevista con John Gatto :).

Algunas partes interesantes:

Schools, he says, are irremediably broken. Built to supply a mass-production economy with a docile workforce, they ask too little of children, and thereby drain youngsters of curiosity and autonomy.

...the truth is that genius is an exceedingly common human quality, probably natural to most of us.

Memorizing notes off the board is not real work.

To teach people that we work to get money to buy stuff is insane...

...a school system, since it's an indoctrination system...

"Changing classes lasts 300 seconds to keep promiscuous fraternization at low levels."

Él escribió esto también The Seven Lesson Schoolteacher muy recomendable.

martes, octubre 10, 2006

Contradicción? O no.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
— Oscar Wilde



lunes, abril 03, 2006

“Thomas Stanley has not only found no correlation between success in school and an ability to accumulate wealth, he’s actually found a negative correlation. ‘It seems that school-related evaluations are poor predictors of economic success,’ Stanley concluded. What did predict success was a willingness to take risks. Yet the success-failure standards of most schools penalized risk takers. Most educational systems reward those who play it safe. As a result, those who do well in school find it hard to take risks later on.”
—Richard Farson & Ralph Keyes, Whoever Makes the Most Mistakes Wins

lunes, septiembre 19, 2005

Palabras asociadas a la educación

Propongo Reemplazar
  • Aburrimiento
  • Horario
  • Trabajo
  • Tarea
  • Asistencia
por curiosidad, aventura, sopresa, emoción, iniciativa.

lunes, marzo 07, 2005

Stop wasting your life and go get started

De slashdot...

You've wasted enough of your life in school. Go DO stuff. How many years did you spend not making shit income in school and how much money did you spend to be there? Imagine what you could have done with that time if you'd gotten a computer, some books, and gone about making shit happen?

Education is what employers settle for when they can't get their hands on someone with experience. Stop wasting your life and go get started.

Que piensas? Pon un comentario....

lunes, febrero 28, 2005

Los gringos ya se dieron cuenta, y nosotros ?

Bill Gates ya se dió cuenta que las escuelas no están funcionando bien y parece que cree que el problema es casi tan grande como el sida, porque donó 700 MDD para tratar de resolverlo.

"America's high schools are obsolete," Gates said

Y las prepas mexicanas ? Esas seguro son de clase mundial ...

lunes, febrero 07, 2005

Pasión

Si no te apasiona, lo aprendes?

Existen personas con una enorme capacidad de retención, sin embargo, no todos podemos almacenar datos sin vincularnos con ellos a un nivel emocional.

El aprendizaje debe ser emocionante.

Es por eso que no entiendo porqué algunos profesores se dedican a dormir a sus alumnos.


No deberíamos calificar a los profesores de acuerdo a su capacidad de emocionar a sus alumnos ?

En Wired proponen como medir la emoción

viernes, febrero 04, 2005

Está mal compartir información (algunos le dicen copiar) ?

Donald Norman inventó el estudio del diseño y en este artículo nos enseña porqué esta a favor de copiar.

Bad artists copy. Great artists steal. - Picasso

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