December 2009
November 2009
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Stylistic Tropics
“We’re living in a stylistic tropics. There’s a whole generation of people able to access almost anything from almost anywhere, and they don’t have the same localised stylistic sense that my generation grew up with. It’s all alive, all “now,” in an ever-expanding present, be it Hildegard of Bingen or a Bollywood soundtrack. The idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has...
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“Oh man. Kids r weird. Just came across giant herd of 5th graders in GG Park....”
– Robin Sloan
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“He has to make what he is thinking in order to express it.”
– Fantastic Journal (via Matt Jones)
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Counter-testing Program
“I conduct my own counter-testing program in which I promote play, passion, and useless skills that have no value other than to support physical and mental well-being, along with the added bonus of impressing people who appreciate whatever it is you learn to do.”
Doug Noon
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Secrets of a Buccaneer-Scholar
“The pattern I experienced at Apple would be confirmed almost everywhere I traveled in the computer industry: most people have put themselves on intellectual autopilot. Most don’t study on their own initiative, but only when they are forced to do so. Even when they study, they choose to study the obvious and conventional subjects. This has the effect of making them more alike instead...
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“10 is the new 2. We’re infantilizing our kids into incompetence.”
– Lenore Skenazy
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“How to begin to educate a child. First rule: leave him alone. Second rule: leave...”
– D. H. Lawrence
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WatchMilton Glaser Draws and Lectures
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“I wonder if each continent might have a temporal focus. And if so, does this...”
– David Byrne
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An argument against grades — in any form
Considering some conversations I’ve had recently, this seems like a very good moment to share the following quote from a post written by one of my seventh grade students colleagues:
I believe that instead of a rubric that explains what a student has done, the student should converse with the teacher and discuss different ways that the project could be improved. All grade/point/rubric...
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“Should we prepare young people to compete in the world in which we live, or...”
– Lessons from the Inuit « Re-educate
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“It’s amazing how much cool stuff you can do when you don’t have to go to school.”
– High school student (via Re-educate)
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The Wonder Deficit
“This is what’s wrong with the world. Everything is explained now. We live in an age when you say casually to somebody ‘What’s the story on that?’ and they can run to the computer and tell you within five seconds. That’s fine, but sometimes I’d just as soon continue wondering. We have a deficit of wonder right now.”
Tom Waits
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“Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide...”
– Cormac McCarthy
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“History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are...”
– Ambrose Bierce
Watch“MY PLAYGROUND: A documentary film by Kaspar Astrup Schröder about movement in urban space.” (via Graham Jeffery)
