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Sunday, July 25th, 2010
Sir Ken Robinson: Bring on the learning revolution!
I meet all kinds of people who don’t enjoy what they do. They simply go through their lives getting on with it. They get no great pleasure from what they do. They endure it, rather than enjoy it, and wait for the weekend. But I also meet people who love what they do and couldn’t imagine doing anything else. If you said to them, “Don’t do this anymore,” they’d wonder what you were talking about. Because it isn’t what they do, it’s who they are. They say, “But this is me, you know. It would be foolish for me to abandon this, because it speaks to my most authentic self.” And it’s not true of enough people. In fact, on the contrary, I think it’s certainly a minority of people. And I think there are many possible explanations for it. And high among them is education, because education, in a way, dislocates very many people from their natural talents. And human resources are like natural resources; they’re often buried deep. You have to go looking for them. They’re not just lying around on the surface. You have to create the circumstances where they show themselves. And you might imagine education would be the way that happens. But too often, it’s not. Every education system in the world is being reformed at the moment. And it’s not enough. Reform is no use anymore, because that’s simply improving a broken model. What we need — and the word’s been used many times during the course of the past few days — is not evolution, but a revolution in education. This has to be transformed into something else.
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Sunday, July 4th, 2010
Celebrating the Spirit of America
Happy Birthday America July 4, 2010
Bill Whittle, on PJTV, recently ran a story about how America is neither about what the opinion makers on the East coast or the myth makers on the West coast tell us. Instead, America is about the goodness of the everyday American people.
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Friday, October 3rd, 2008
Getting Things Done
Best Selling Author David Allen is founder and President of The David Allen Company and a renowned lecturer on ‘relaxed productivity.’ In the last twenty years he has developed and implemented productivity improvement programs for over a half million professionals in hundreds of organizations worldwide.
Click here to view a live lecture given to [...]
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Monday, September 8th, 2008
Go It Alone - Bruce Judson
Bruce Judson is a successful go-it-alone entrepreneur, a bestselling and award-winning author, and one of the nation’s leading experts on marketing and entrepreneurship. His unique approach is to “battle test” his innovative ideas by founding real businesses based on his evolving principles. These practical tests of his theories, combined with his extensive research, then form [...]
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Friday, August 8th, 2008
Randy Pausch’s - Last Lecture
Charles Osgood takes a look at the life of Carnegie Mellon professor Randy Pausch (Oct. 23, 1960 - July 25, 2008), who became famous after his “Last Lecture” appeared on YouTube and inspired millions around the world.
Click here to view the Last Lecture as given on Oprah
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Friday, July 25th, 2008
Leadership - That Mysterious Talent
Quiet adjectives about leadership! A plesant reminder that: ”A leader is the one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” - John Maxwell
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Thursday, July 10th, 2008
Walter Williams - Economics of Liberty
Dr. Williams is an American economist and college professor at George Mason University. He is also a syndicated columnist and author known for his libertarian and sometimes conservative views. (Enjoy the Video clip)
