Tag: Life After School podcast
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Podcast highlights: If you are one of the people who come up with a lot of excuses even if a question is already burning up within you is that most probably, fear keeps you from doing so. You are simply afraid to be judged in all sorts of ways. You are afraid because people might…
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Here’s a TEDTalk given by Seth Godin where he raised provocative questions about what school is for. In 2012, he wrote a manifesto about what school is for, entitled Stop Stealing Dreams, which you can access here. You can also download its eBook version here, and it’s free. And if you are a Filipino interested…
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From The Invented History of ‘The Factory Model of Education’: One of the most common ways to criticize our current system of education is to suggest that it’s based on a “factory model.” An alternative condemnation: “industrial era.” The implication is the same: schools are woefully outmoded. Podcast highlights: “In a standardized system, individuality does…
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If you have spent your life in school like this: Years Kindergarten 2 Grade school 6 High school 4 Undergrad 5 Graduate studies 2 This is the number of years I spent in school. …you have spent almost one-third of your life in school, assuming a 75-year life-span. Podcast highlights “I was taught that if…