March 2011
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WatchChile Tipográfico - Trailer by Krft.tv
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Growing Together
When we designated our classrooms as studios and outfitted them with large, adjustable tables and chairs with wheels rather than the inflexible, old-school desks, we were aiming to foster a culture of creativity and collaboration in the NMY program. But, in the end, as Matt Webb of BERG London reminds us, culture is really about people:
Our culture and way of working is what makes us BERG. And...
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“The future is not a noun, it’s a verb.”
– Charlotte Jarvis
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“We’ve become addicted to experts. We’ve become addicted to their certainty,...”
– Noreena Hertz (via We Are The Digital Kids)
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“If your object is to secure liberty, you must learn to do without authority and...”
– Alexander Berkman
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Love and Education
“Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it, and by the same token save it from that ruin which except for renewal, except for the coming of the new and the young, would be inevitable. And education, too, is where we decide whether we love our children enough not to expel them from our world and leave them to their own devices,...
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WatchTrailer for Schooling the World: The White Man’s Last Burden:
If you wanted to change an ancient culture in a generation, how would you do it?
You would change the way it educates its children.
The U.S. Government knew this in the 19th century when it forced Native American children into government boarding schools. Today, volunteers build schools in traditional societies...
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Reading and Writing
“The less conscious one is of being ‘a writer,’ the better the writing. And though reading is the best school of writing, school is the worst place for reading. Writing should … be as spontaneous and urgent as a letter to a lover, or a message to a friend who has just lost a parent … and writing is, in the end, that oddest of anomalies: an intimate letter to a...
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“[N]ever again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.”
– John Berger (via Dougald Hine)
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“And I had a sense, from this and earlier visits to Indian finishing schools, of...”
– Anand Giridharadas
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“Conformity and obedience are easy, compared to the immense work of breaking the...”
– From a story by TCSNMY student Anthony Albright, “Keep Moving Please. We Will NOT Be Taking Questions.”
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