Big Ideas Are Better Than Small Ones
For a long time education bothered itself about the detail. Not that it shouldn’t, details are important, but it saw them as the purpose of our teaching. Revision for tests requiring the memorization of facts, with the best grades reserved for those with the best…
Exploring Space in the Classroom
By Camilla Cook I was once locked in a room with a class of thirteen year olds for over two hours. This disturbing situation occurred because Alissa had worked out that she could steal the door handle, leap out of the room, and slam the…
Handling Criticism
Handling Criticism With Grace and Honesty by Kare Anderson A client just called us to order 5,000 copies of a slender book I wrote years ago. He said that he wished he’d called sooner, before the sides had hardened between the people in his corporation. Now several…