next decade, this 30 million will grow to 100 million. To meet this staggering demand, a major university needs to be created each week" (1996). Related post.
"Our ancestors sailed across a vast ocean, one third of the earth's surface, and to accomplish this great feat they needed the vision to see islands over the horizon, the ability to plan intentional voyages of discovery, the discipline to train physically and mentally, the courage to take risks, and a deep sense of aloha to bind the crew together during the voyage. These are Hawaiian values but they are also universal values. They worked in the past and they will work today" (Polynesian Voyaging Society and Georganne Nordstrom, "Nainoa Thompson: In Search of History," Horizons, 1999).
instead of seeking radically new opportunities to develop school-as-it-can-be" (Seymour Papert and Gaston Caperton, in Transforming Learning Through Technology: Policy Roadmaps for the Nation's Governors, Milken Family Foundation, 1999).
matter. What matters to me is the determined space and time where determined tasks are accomplished. Social historical and political tasks, not only individual ones. . . . The two main tasks of the school: to get the already known knowledge and to produce the knowledge not yet in existence" (In Seymour Papert's "The Future of School," transcripts of a late-1980s Sao Paulo, Brazil, TV broadcast).
and to consider the action of others to give point and direction to his own, is equivalent to breaking down barriers of class, race, and national territory which kept men from perceiving the full import of their activity" (Democracy and Education, Macmillan, NY, 1916).
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Subj: Two Million Minutes
From: William W Reisner [reisner@hawaii.edu]
Sent: Sun 8/10/2008 7:30 AM
To: James Shimabukuro
Jimmy,
Wondering if you heard of this documentary, Two Million Minutes (the time one is in high school).
It follows six students — two in China, two in India, and two in US through the rigors (or lack thereof) of their curriculum. I [...]
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Beijing Olympics – live, streaming, free. Go to NBCOlympics.com, download the driver (Silverlight.2.0.exe), and you’re in. Just watched the last quarter of the US men beating Yao Ming and the Chinese team, 101-70.
The sign-up also asks for your zip code and local TV provider — not sure why they need the latter since the broadcast [...]
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