RSA Animate - Changing Education Paradigms http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U
I found this talk interesting given our recent discussions of post-modernism, the value of literary fiction, and the old standard of realism. I disagree that it all boils down to an industrialized education system; but I agree that all the elements he mentions, from industrialized education to medicating children to the over-valuation of abstract thought, etc. are part of the cause of PoMo (and its unjustified propagation), the lowered value of literary fiction (at least in some of us), and _both_ the hyperfocus on and the abandonment of realism. -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://tempusdictum.com ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
