http://www.nucloud.com/blog/interactive-map-higher-education-spending-cuts/ Scalable Multimedia Services for Higher Education | nuCloud Wed, 30 Jun 2010 04:36:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.nucloud.com/blog/interactive-map-higher-education-spending-cuts/comment-page-1/#comment-219 Adriana Clarks Tue, 15 Jun 2010 09:10:06 +0000 http://www.nucloud.com/?p=392#comment-219 Education is really a vital field, because everything in the world relies on education and learning. I saw that on a website someplace -- a non-profit organization in the Philippines. Teachers work hard at their craft (most of them, anyway). But there are several who appear to have a gift to inspire. My senior high school world history teacher was one particular. She had lived in China as a kid. When she taught in Rockville, Maryland, you could actually feel the wisdom of all her experience. She didn't have us memorize dates. Which had been the first really good thing I had been told by a history teacher. What she said next took the subject several magnitudes higher in value. She wanted us to understand the motivations of history -- the deeply visceral, human facets of what can somewhat be a deadly dry subject. Jaime Escalante of "Stand and Deliver" fame, dared to dream big. Calculus for the typically dropout crowd? Pushing them to go on to college? Wow. And I have this book called, "Calculus Made Easy," by Sylvanus P. Thompson, first published in 1910. It's been through lots of printings all to make a simple subject simple. What can we do to create more teachers who inspire world-changing brilliance? Einstein once said that imagination is much more important than knowledge. Knowledge can provide you with the foundation. Imagination usually takes you to the stars. Don't our kids deserve better? Education is really a vital field, because everything in the world relies on education and learning. I saw that on a website someplace — a non-profit organization in the Philippines. Teachers work hard at their craft (most of them, anyway). But there are several who appear to have a gift to inspire. My senior high school world history teacher was one particular. She had lived in China as a kid. When she taught in Rockville, Maryland, you could actually feel the wisdom of all her experience. She didn’t have us memorize dates. Which had been the first really good thing I had been told by a history teacher. What she said next took the subject several magnitudes higher in value. She wanted us to understand the motivations of history — the deeply visceral, human facets of what can somewhat be a deadly dry subject. Jaime Escalante of “Stand and Deliver” fame, dared to dream big. Calculus for the typically dropout crowd? Pushing them to go on to college? Wow. And I have this book called, “Calculus Made Easy,” by Sylvanus P. Thompson, first published in 1910. It’s been through lots of printings all to make a simple subject simple. What can we do to create more teachers who inspire world-changing brilliance? Einstein once said that imagination is much more important than knowledge. Knowledge can provide you with the foundation. Imagination usually takes you to the stars. Don’t our kids deserve better?

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