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▫ A 15th century
professor would feel
right at home
▫ Teaching = Talking
▫ Learning = Absorbing
John D. Rockefeller
General Education Board Founder 1913
“I don’t want a nation of thinkers
I want a nation of workers”
“
A system that teaches kids information that has no
personal meaning, has them regurgitate that
information onto a test, and subsequently has them
forget everything they learned after a three-month
period is an ineffective system to say the least.
3 Points to Prove
2.
▫ Larry Spence
▪ Award not given
▪ Photographic memory
▪ Didn’t Exist
▪ Learned Chem through learning experience
▪ Blew up stuff
▪ Fireworks
“
Fascinated that we could do this with charcoal,
sulfur, and saltpeter, I set up a laboratory in the
furnace room at home. Over the next two years I
learned to build my own batteries, a rectifier so I
could tap into the doorbell wiring and convert it to
direct current, and a hydrolysis apparatus to
manufacture oxygen and hydrogen - that fabulous
exploding gas.
- Larry Spence
3.
Addition to the current curriculum can go a long way
in advancing the well-being of students
3.
▫ Formulate a system
▫ Implement it into a controlled environment
▪ Start off at small scale
▪ Class of kids
▪ Over summer break