Choose2Matter at the Downingtown STEM Academy. From The Creators Of South Park, One Lesson Schools Don't Teach. Narrator: In music, one doesn't make the end of the composition the point of the composition. If that were so, the best conductors would be those who played fastest, and there would be composers who wrote only finales. People would go to concerts just to hear one crashing chord — and that's the end! But we don't see that as, uh, something brought by our education into our everyday conduct. We've got a system of schooling that gives a completely different impression. And then you get out of grade school you got high school and it's revving up — the thing is coming — and then you've got to go to college. And then you get into some racket where you're selling insurance and they've got that quota to make, and you're going to make that.
Then when you wake up one day about 40 years old and you say, "My god, I've arrived! We thought of life by analogy with a journey with a pilgrimage which had a serious purpose at the end. But we missed the point the whole way along. Ken Robinson: How to escape education's death valley. Ken Robinson: How schools kill creativity. Geoffrey Canada: Our failing schools. Enough is enough! The Best Posts On Involving Fathers In Schools. The topic of increasing the involvement of fathers in schools has been garnering some attention lately, and I thought I’d bring together some of the previous posts on the topic together. I was prompted to do so by today’s article in The Washington Post, Schools roll out the red carpet for dads who volunteer.
Coincidentally, I believe tonight’s #PTchat on Twitter was on this same subject, and I’ll a link to its transcript when it becomes available (here it is). Here are my previous posts: “Dads read to children in LA school to promote literacy” “Nevada PTA Sets Example on Male Engagement” “Engaging Fathers in Education” “Houston Dad Learns Valuable Lessons Volunteering at School” Feel free to make other suggestions in the comments section. I’ll be adding this list to A Collection Of “The Best…” Lists On Parent Engagement. Related "The Best Research Available On Parent Engagement" In "Best of lists" Sir Ken Robinson: Bring on the learning revolution! Benjamin Zander: The transformative power of classical music. Leadership: an Art of Possibility - Motivational Videos by Ben Zander.