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I am so pleased to find a speaker who hits all the right buttons about the way we educate our children. Education is based on outdated concepts about what we think every child should know.
And that is just plain dumb and so wrong of us elders to assume each child requires to be taught what was setout 80 years ago or more in school curriculums that were run under completely different and myopic regimes. The education authorities did not know about a lot of stuff we now take for granted. That type of world was not the enlightened one we are in now, or should be in.
In this speech at TED 2006, Sir Ken Robinson outlined his perception of what the education system could do and challenges the education systems to stop smothering creative thinking. Not everyone of us wanted to study Maths did we? Why were we forced to? Does an artist or writer of novels and an actor need Maths? Nope.
Watch the video. It’s a good talk with funny bits in it too.
It is a relief to learn that blogging has not flatlined!
Over at Gapingvoid, Hugh reports that blogging is not dead, but instead is now regarded as a subset of a large suite of media applications available to all. Hugh confirms that bloggers who want to invest the time and energy into their blogs should carry on publishing. OK. I will. You?
What kind of screw do you use to screw your shareholders?
Dodging investors angry over the pay received by Home Depot chairman and CEO Robert Nardelli, who took home at least $120 million over five years as the company’s stock price dropped 12 percent, Home Depot’s board fails to show up at its annual shareholders meeting.
Let’s now all go smack Guy Kawasaki because a guy called Michael Young says we should not bother with Guy. Shame on you Guy for not issuing a “Don’t Waste Your Time With Me” warning. Tut tut.
But let’s get serious. As you, I, the world and blogosphere know, Guy Kawasaki is a fabulous and pre-eminent blogger, a grand essayist, a must read author and a Venture Capitalist. Anyone here ever heard of Michael Young, bloggist? No? Mmmm
Have you got sales staff who moan about the product(s) they “are forced to sell”? If you do, ask them to sell the Sinus Bidet. Yes, I did say the Sinus Bidet. As in the photo.
I have fallen many times under the spell of the clever ones and impulse bought something I cannot afford or do not need.
You have done it too.
Thanks to Hugh Macleod at gapingvoid.com and his genius back of business cards cartoons, I found the above cartoon to place on the reverse or in fact the face of my new business cards.
I address this to all those who have felt the pressures that choosing the right university causes and the mind numbing processes you are put through during the selection interviews and stresses that are brought to bear on the extremely intelligent young & fertile genius minds.
Colleges want you because you attract money. I previously asked Max to clarify a few issues and she says, “..and were it not for peer and parent pressures, the students might do what is suggested. However I doubt very much that the colleges will ever let up in their elitism and need to generate money for money’s sake alone.”
This morning I learnt that the daughter of a close friend of mine was rushed to hospital after taking an overdose. She had been stressed and pressurised about which university to go to.
I have no answers on how to prevent this sad and desperate measure by a 16yr old. She has a loving and caring family to support her but the pressures to get funds into the campus treasure chest must have created extreme pressures which the college(s) brought to bear on her in order to just to get her to choose them. How appalling of these academic institutions.
What a sad and bad state of affairs they have created. Instead of creating and nurturing, they are dooming young minds to years of hurt, low esteem, mistrust and the need for therapy.
Hi, my name is Rob and I’m recovering from job burnout.
I had a bad burn out. I ignored the warning signs. It reached the lowest point when I began to physically suffer because of it. Angina attacks are painful and absolutely not where you should let yourself get to. I did because I refused to let burnout or the boss get to me. Both did. I lost out.
Back then when it started to become the rage, I was one of the sheep to charge off to get my profile created at all the new rage social network sites. I rushed to Facebook, Twitter, Jaiku, MySpace even Pownce was graced by me.
Mr O’Reilly really has opened up new avenues for article headliners to us bloggers. By just adding that 2.0 after any word, you provide yourself with a blank canvas just waiting to be filled.
Hi, my name is Rob and I’m recovering from job burnout. 
Back then when it started to become the rage, I was one of the sheep to charge off to get my profile created at all the new rage social network sites. I rushed to Facebook, Twitter, Jaiku, MySpace even Pownce was graced by me.
Ever booed and shouted at a referee for awarding a penalty to the other side? No? Yes? 
