“Kids are never the problem. They are born scientists. The problem is always the adults. They beat the curiosity out of kids.” — Neil deGrasse Tyson I enjoy supporting my 6-year-old son as he learns to play…
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Observing Becomes Believing
‘Give me the child for his first seven years, and I’ll give you the man’ — Aristotle “Chappie” is a South-African based movie about an artificially intelligent law enforcement robot captured and taught by gangsters, who nickname…
The Mind is not a Vessel to be Filled but a Fire to be Kindled
AlphaCoders “The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.” — Plutarch The Only Role of the Learner is to Receive? I had a discussion about Education with one of the greatest…
To and From the Mouths of Babes: How Kids are a Black Mirror of Society
Speak Up -Shirt Woot “Parents often think that they are here to guide the little ones. When — in reality — the little ones come forth with clarity to guide you.” — Abraham Hicks Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954), was…
The Madame Bovary Effect and The Benefit of Boredom
“Boredom” by Beatriz Martin Vidal “Boredom always precedes a period of great creativity.” — Robert M. Pirsig (American — Philosopher, Born: 1928) Madame Bovary is the 1856 novel by French writer Gustave Flaubert. The main character Emma Bovary lives beyond her…
Explorers, Not Tour Guides, The Value of Questions and Curiosity
“Computers are useless — they only give you answers.” — Picasso “Never memorise something that you can look up.”― Albert Einstein There is a story that tells how Albert Einstein was once travelling on a train. When the conductor approached…
When all you have is a Hammer, everything looks like a Nail — The Einstellung Effect on…
AlphaCoders “To a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.” — Twain/Maslow/Kaplan/Baruch/Buddha/Unknown The Law of the Instrument The law of the instrument, otherwise known as Maslow’s hammer is a cognitive bias that involves an over-reliance…
Functional Fixedness — Critical Thinking
ShirtWoot “We are powerfully imprisoned by the terms in which we have been conducted to think.” — Buckminster Fuller One of the joys of many childhoods is building a den, a clubhouse or a spaceship out of…
Excellent Sheep? The Future of Leadership, Work and Education
Woot.com It (Education) is headed towards a crisis of sorts, where it simply no longer works for the vast majority of middle-class students who are amassing large amounts of debt going to college — Peter Thiel Imagine you…
Moths, Unicorns, Cockroaches, Children: Raising the Bar, Not the Floor
Moths There is a story that goes like this: A man finds a cocoon of an Emperor moth. He takes it home so he can watch the moth break out of the cocoon when the…