Why do we learn to write, paint, play music, code? Why do we bother trying to understand difficult ideas and turn that understanding into new work? Our culture of virality and fame suggests that we make work to make it big. We're told by educational institutions that they're developing cultures of "excellence," and that idea of excellence is represented to us as landing big jobs (at google or amazon) or finding a massive audience. But most of us will never do any of this; and even if w...
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Why do we learn to write, paint, play music, code? Why do we bother trying to understand difficult ideas and turn that understanding into new work? Our culture of virality and fame suggests that we make work to make it big. We're told by educational institutions that they're developing cultures of "excellence," and that idea of excellence is represented to us as landing big jobs (at google or amazon) or finding a massive audience. But most of us will never do any of this; and even if w...
All of us in education, whether teachers or students, navigate a paradox. To build deep knowledge of any particular kind, we have to drill into the limited areas of study we call disciplines. But our experience of the world isn't disciplinary: We're confronted with experiences and challenges of so many different types, all the time. And that tension between specificity and generality is only growing more fraught in a time where our problems seem so huge and so transdisciplinary. I...
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Why do we learn to write, paint, play music, code? Why do we bother trying to understand difficult ideas and turn that understanding into new work? Our culture of virality and fame suggests that we make work to make it big. We're told by educational institutions that they're developing cultures of "excellence," and that idea of excellence is represented to us as landing big jobs (at google or amazon) or finding a massive audience. But most of us will never do any of this; and even if w...
