Wednesday, October 20, 2010

The Talent of Teaching

The Talent of Teaching = Empathy! or Theory of Mind!
The opposite of theory of mind = autism.  No social cues. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autism

Dunbar's number -  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number
The number of people that you can maintain a social relation ship with, guess what a good number for schools to use would be...  At high school maybe per class, but that would be max!
Middle School division = 150

Best empathy training = theater arts

What was a brain designed to do?
  • Solve problems
  • Survival
  • In changing weather
  • while in motion
Our traditional classroom are a  bad idea for brains and brain development.  That goes for cubicles too.

There is no none correlation to content and critical thinking skills.


We have been seduced by short term outcomes!  We live in a culture looking at the immediate.  Education is a long term ride, it should be a lifetime.  Not the hours spent in the walls of a poorly designed classroom.

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