by KP | Jul 28, 2012 | Education
via A pledge to always do the right thing | Opinion | CentreDaily.com. Lying on the grass prostrate I wanted to die. Earlier that day I had been caught cheating on a health education test in high school. The teacher who caught me was the head of the athletic...
by KP | Jul 23, 2012 | Ceramics, Education
Check out this video featuring Adam Savage from Mythbusters, on Making. Notable quotes: Making is inherently risky. You’re gonna cut yourself, you’re gonna get bruised, you’re gonna mess things up, you’re gonna fail, and that’s...
by KP | Jul 20, 2012 | Education
Thoughtful op-ed piece by Mark Edmondson, from UVA, in today’s NYTimes. Â I agree wholeheartedly. …Every memorable class is a bit like a jazz composition. There is the basic melody that you work with. It is defined by the syllabus. But there is also a...
by KP | Jul 19, 2012 | Ceramics, Education
Just like I want to believe that clay – and all things tactile – will stay inherently engaging as we move closer and closer to a pushbutton society, I also want to believe many other idealisms about education. Â I was brought up that way. I was raised to...
by KP | Jul 17, 2012 | Ceramics, Education
Today was my first day of two weeks of teaching at the summer camp gig. I’m working with 6-12-year-olds, loosely teaching some clay projects in morning and afternoon sessions, three hours to a clip. I want to believe that clay is innately engaging, that...
by KP | Jul 16, 2012 | Education
I had to laugh at Sagmeister’s wall piece ‘Every single time’ at ‘The Happy Show’ this weekend. Â Just a couple of days before, I’d been asked to chime in a few ‘what-ifs’ to a leader’s list, with the caveat that...
