September 27, 2024

Learning

'Rule 4: Consider everything an experiment.'

I've talked with you about Sister Caritas Kent's ten Immaculate Heart College Art Department Rules. They are inspiring and relevant to anyone interested in personal growth, learning, and teaching any subject. This week I stumbled upon a video by curator Sarah Urist Green. In it she holds up each of the rules, and uses their insights as jumping off points to celebrate Kent's whole life.

VIDEO: Art + Life Rules from a Nun

Learning

What people think they can do together can shape outcomes as much as any policy or formal plan.

Learning

Embracing the challenge of renewal in personal and political life

ARTICLE: Threatened with Resurrection

Learning

Motivation, curiosity, and values are not add‑ons to learning; they are its engine.

BOOK: Emotions, Learning, and the Brain. Exploring the Educational Implications of Affective Neuroscience

Learning

The greatest danger we face is psychic numbing—the impulse to shut down our capacity to feel grief, fear, and outrage about what is happening to the Earth.

ESSAY: The Greatest Danger