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  • Hacking Education Begins with Good Habits and Practical Knowledge

    I often talk with youth (here and here are some examples) about how what they are doing in high school and/or university may not be giving them everything they need. There are lot of ways, however, that the system can… Continue reading

    Hacking Education Begins with Good Habits and Practical Knowledge

  • Teachers must Care; Students must Attend

    That is, mentors must be engaged with mentoring people, seeing the student as an Existenz, with all of the possibility that this entails. And learners must attend, being fully now/here wherever they are, focused on this happening with the mentor. It… Continue reading

    Teachers must Care; Students must Attend

  • 7 Must-Read Books on Education | Brain Pickings

    Education is something we’re deeply passionate about, but the fact remains that today’s dominant formal education model is a broken system based on antiquated paradigms. While much has been said and written about education reform over the past couple of… Continue reading

    7 Must-Read Books on Education | Brain Pickings

  • Without a Teacher

    Having awakened to Encompassing Mindfulness, what master can make of you a mere disciple? Let-go seeking after authority: liberate this being, this self! Source: Uploaded by user via Keith Wayne on Pinterest   Continue reading

  • The Banking Conception of Education

    “In the banking concept of education, knowledge is a gift bestowed by those who consider themselves knowledgeable upon those whom they consider to know nothing.” Paulo Freire, The Pedagogy of the Oppressed                … Continue reading

  • The Rise of Democratic Schools and ‘Solutionaries’…

    Twenty years ago at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Severn Cullis-Suzuki, a 12-year-old girl from Canada, “silenced the world for six minutes” with her raw and powerful oration lambasting adults for dumping the problems they created onto the… Continue reading

  • Hacking Your Education, Part 2

    And here is part 2 of the talk I gave in September 2012 to students at the University of North Texas.  [You can find Part 1 here.] Keith Brown – Hacking Your Education Part 2 from Anthony Miles on Vimeo. Continue reading

  • Hacking Your Education, Part 1

    A talk I gave to a group of University of North Texas students back in September. Keith Brown – Hacking Your Education Part 1 from Anthony Miles on Vimeo. [You can watch Part 2 here] Continue reading

  • TechnoScience & the New Pedagogy

    In the past, the suggestion of getting a college degree without ever cracking a book meant paying a degree mill. It meant the degree was in name only, reflecting neither learning nor effort. Then distance learning meant correspondence courses, perhaps… Continue reading