http://stealthisidea.com/articles/reinventing-higher-education/ Philip Haine's articles on Product Vision, Innovation and Design Tue, 06 Dec 2011 23:38:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://stealthisidea.com/articles/reinventing-higher-education/comment-page-1/#comment-3643 Adriana Clarks Tue, 15 Jun 2010 09:14:56 +0000 http://stealthisidea.com/?p=602#comment-3643 Education is unquestionably a vital field, because everything in civilization is determined by education and learning. I saw that on a website someplace -- a non-profit organization in the Philippines. Teachers strive at their craft (many of them, anyway). But there are some who seem to have a gift to inspire. My senior high school world history teacher was one of those. She had lived in China as a growing up. When she taught in Rockville, Maryland, you could feel the wisdom of all her experience. She didn't have us memorize dates. Which was the first truly great thing I had been told by a history tutor. What she said next took the subject several magnitudes higher in value. She wanted us to know the motivations of history -- the deeply visceral, human aspects of what can somewhat be a deadly dry subject. Jaime Escalante of "Stand and Deliver" fame, dared to dream big. Calculus for the typically dropout crowd? Pushing them to go on to college? Wow. And I've this book called, "Calculus Made Easy," by Sylvanus P. Thompson, first published in 1910. It's been through many printings all to make an easy subject simple. What are we able to do to create more tutors who inspire world-changing excellence? Einstein once asserted that imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge can provide you with the inspiration. Imagination will take you to the stars. Don't our kids ought to get better? Education is unquestionably a vital field, because everything in civilization is determined by education and learning. I saw that on a website someplace — a non-profit organization in the Philippines. Teachers strive at their craft (many of them, anyway). But there are some who seem to have a gift to inspire. My senior high school world history teacher was one of those. She had lived in China as a growing up. When she taught in Rockville, Maryland, you could feel the wisdom of all her experience. She didn’t have us memorize dates. Which was the first truly great thing I had been told by a history tutor. What she said next took the subject several magnitudes higher in value. She wanted us to know the motivations of history — the deeply visceral, human aspects of what can somewhat be a deadly dry subject. Jaime Escalante of “Stand and Deliver” fame, dared to dream big. Calculus for the typically dropout crowd? Pushing them to go on to college? Wow. And I’ve this book called, “Calculus Made Easy,” by Sylvanus P. Thompson, first published in 1910. It’s been through many printings all to make an easy subject simple. What are we able to do to create more tutors who inspire world-changing excellence? Einstein once asserted that imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge can provide you with the inspiration. Imagination will take you to the stars. Don’t our kids ought to get better?

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