Photo courtesy of IStockPhoto “You shouldn’t go to a four-year residential institution to get trained. You should go to a four-year residential institution to get an undergraduate education that is the foundation of the next 40 or 50 years of your life.” The quote referenced above came from John Hennessy, the President of Stanford University […]
Tag Archives: Education Is Horked
Dancing While the Ice Melts
There was a local election last night here in Raleigh, NC. The big race was not the mayoral race, but rather the seats on the local school board. As I have talked about in the past, the Wake County school board has been under fire for the last few years as they have moved to […]
Should Sports Be On the Chopping Block?
Education is a topic that I occasionally touch on in my blog. In the interest of full disclosure, I don’t have my kids in public school. It’s not for religious reasons or anything like that, but because at least where we live it’s a bit of a circus (google Wake County public school board). […]
Using 529 Funds to Start a Business
What if you were allowed to use your 529 fund money to start a business instead of going to college? This is an idea I have been thinking about for the last day or so. It was sparked by a conversation I had where I was told that a local private university costs $56,000 a […]
Project-based education
I met Chris Lehmann from Science Leadership Academy on the way to Austin last Saturday. Chris runs a school in Philadelphia called Science Leadership Academy ( scienceleadership.org ). I would highly recommend that you spend some time on their site reading about what he has done. Chris has managed to build a standout school in […]
One Month In – The Apprenticeship Report
As I wrote about sometime back, I took on an apprentice / intern this year. I wrote about the idea of the return of apprenticeships earlier this year as a part of my Education Is Horked series. This is a continuation of that series. Since we are about a month in ( maybe a little […]
Putting Up
Earlier this year, I wrote a blog post about the return of craftsmanship. It was my position at the time that we need to think about how to bring people into the emerging job market in ways that may or may not include the traditional education path. I am pleased to announce that this summer, […]
1775 – Education Was Horked
An excerpt from a book I am reading: “Education, like so much else, was a casualty of troubled times. There was no time for extensive study… Literacy dwindled, and with it the quality of civil servants. Faced with unrelenting pressures… and social chaos,fields such as philosophy and literature were largely ignored as luxuries of a […]
Should We Run Schools Like A Business? – Education Is Horked, Part 6
This is Part 6 in my continuing series, Education Is Horked. Previously I wrote about my thesis on the state of US education, The Myth Of The Career, Questioning Everything, and The Return of Craftmanship, and Why We Homeschool. It is my hope to get people thinking about the tectonic shift happening under our feet […]
Why We Homeschool – Education Is Horked Part 5
This is Part 5 in my continuing series, Education Is Horked. Previously I wrote about my thesis on the state of US education, The Myth Of The Career, Questioning Everything, and The Return of Craftmanship. It is my hope to get people thinking about the tectonic shift happening under our feet and what part education […]