“If this prinicpal thinks blogging isn't educational, he needs his head examined: he should be seeking out every student blogger in the school and giving them special time to blog more - and giving them extra credit besides.” IfsThinkingNeedsGivingShouldSchoolFunnySpecialStudentsSeekingEducationalCreditExtrasThoughtfulBlogsBloggingBloggersSpecial Times Author:Cory Doctorow
“Anybody who gives away money is mostly looking at things where they think they can make a difference. I'm trying to help people who helped me, educational institutions that helped me with scholarships, or organizations that were very useful to me in growing up.” PeopleThinkingGivingTryingHelpingDifferencesGrowing UpGrowingOrganizationInstitutionsEducationalMaking A DifferenceScholarshipEducational Institutions Author:David Rubenstein
“One of the things that we're all struggling with is how to judge the quality of the value-added experience of an educational course or year. I don't think it's impossible to do that, but it's difficult.” ThinkingYearsValuesCoursesDifficultQualityStruggleImpossibleJudgingEducational Author:Roy Romer
“I think anything that requires real global breakthroughs requires a degree of intensity and sustained effort that cannot be done part time, so it's something you have to do around the clock, and that doesn't compute with our existing educational system.” ThinkingRealDoneEffortDegreesEducationalClockIntensityBreakthroughEducational SystemPart Time Author:Peter Thiel