Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity. How do you Learn? Sir Ken Robinson: Bring on the learning revolution! Liz Coleman's call to reinvent liberal arts education. A conversation on TED.com: In your opinion, what should the purpose of education be? How I Joined Teach for America—and Got Sued for $20 Million by Joshua Kaplowitz, City Journal Winter 2003.
It was May 2000, and the guy at Al Gore’s polling firm seemed baffled. A Yale political-science major, I’d already walked away from a high-paying consulting job a few weeks earlier, and now I was walking away from a job working on a presidential campaign to do . . . what? Well, when push came to shove, I didn’t want to devote my life to helping the rich get richer or crunching numbers to see what views were most popular for the vice president to adopt. This wasn’t what my 17 years of education were for. My doctor parents had drummed into me that education was the key to every door, the one thing they couldn’t take away from my ancestors during pogroms and persecutions. They had also filled me with a strong sense of social justice. I told the Al Gore guy, “Thanks, but no thanks.” Five weeks later, I found myself steering my parents’ old Volvo off R Street and into a one-block cul-de-sac. I parked the car and bounded into the main office to say hi to Mr.
Fine. Worse, Ms. Some of Ms. Ms. Master of Arts in Teaching. The Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) or Master of Science in Teaching (MST) degree is generally a pre-service degree that usually requires a minimum of 30 semester hours beyond the Bachelor's degree. While the program often requires education classes in order to meet state licensure requirements, it emphasizes advanced coursework in a specific academic discipline to enhance one's knowledge in that subject area.[1] Furthermore, it focuses on educating the candidate in practical teaching skills for use as a teacher, as opposed to focusing on performing research in the educational field. Candidates usually spend a semester as a full time student teacher in order to earn the degree.