the future of education?

this is mind blowing! not so much because it hasn't been thought of or attempted before, but rather because it's COMPLETELY FREE and very intuitive! if you're a teacher or have school age kids, this is definitely worth your time to watch.

so we've got people like this who has dedicated his life to an idea that would expand and enhance free, public education, and then you have the Scott Walker's, John Kasich's and Robert Bobb's (yeah, that's Bob Bobb) of the world trying to sell public education to the private sector using YOUR tax dollars. that's right, kinda like spending trillions of taxpayer money on Wall Street bonuses. FAIL!

Contemplative practices in education

this is awesome! and much needed. Antioch College is holding a symposium next month about incorporating contemplative practices into higher education. follow the link below!

http://antiochcollege.org/the_antiochian/winter_2011/features/contemplation.html

exercise democracy!

this is going to be a venting post, so please bear with me...

democracy is getting a much needed workout by protesters from Wisconsin, Indiana, Ohio and across the globe. South Carolina, Texas, Maine and Maryland are a few of the newcomers that have been inspired by the brave protesters from Wisconsin and have joined in the protests against the upper class attack on labor rights.

have no doubts that this new "fad" of demonizing public workers has NOTHING to do with the budget crisis. it's no coincidence that the new film "Kids Aren't Cars", directed by highly partisan Kyle Olson, has been released very quickly, in small, very poorly edited chunks just in time for the unified Republican attack on unions.

oh yeah...and if you are not one of Forbes' top 400, then you are probably one of the 155,000,000 people who, combined, make less than these elite. USA is outa money? nope, it's just that u don't have any of it, and what little bit you do make, someone else is trying to take to fund trillion dollar bailouts and erroneous wars.

do yourselves a favor people and start thinking for yourselves and taking responsibility for your own thoughts and actions! denounce liberalism, conservatism, fundamentalism, tea-bagism, douchebabism and definitely creationism and promote individualism with tolerance for others and their ideas and the nobelism to know when your own ideas are genius or pure crap as they relate to the greater good of the whole. don't put a turd in a bag and sell it to someone else if you wouldn't gratefully gobble down someone else's shit when they feed it to you!

BLAH!