Oh My Gosh!!! I'm listening to this inspirational gentleman while thumbing through William James Bennet's+800 page "Book of Virtues". Kipling's "If" caught my eye. So I tear a piece of paper to mark that spot and continue the skim. At the very moment the Two words "chicken" and "little" are spoken, my eyes lock on to those words on the page. A moment of delicate, 630am serendipity.
Why is physics not a solid foundation? I happen to believe it gives an incredible education in complexity. I was outsmarted by introductory Physics a couple of years ago, and I'm working on building more knowledge and perseverance to tackle it again. I think it's amazing stuff to know, and Newtonian Physics is very relevant always. Newton's First Law of Motion, for example. An object at rest tends to stay at rest (and vice versa). This has given me so many answers to so many problems I've faced in my life. It goes hand in hand with the Second Law of Thermodynamics, which is that systems tend to decay or go towards entropy over time. It gives me the solid foundation in the belief that life requires a fight! Life requires a great input of energy at all times, and you cannot rest on your laurels (lest you get too relaxation-prone and let the decay take over).
Kern obviously out of his depth. Fairy tales and stories are a part of the readings suggested by CC Appendix B: www.corestandards.org/assets/Appendix_B.pdf Cinderella is actually mentioned in the skillls! De Tocqueville is in Appendix B Charlotte's Web is in there too. Laura Ingalls Wilder - yes in there as well. So his whole point is disproved by the reading suggestions made by CC. Just for the record, perhaps the stories that stayed with me most was a series of nonfiction books that had the titles something to the effect of Meet Abraham Lincoln and Meet Robert E. Lee. Practically speaking the increase in informational texts will fall on nearly all teachers. History teachers should leave their textbooks or supplement their textbooks with more books or long articles as well as longish primary sources. Science teachers should do similarly with their textbooks and include articles and possibly books. (Many of the best teachers already do this.)
Oh My Gosh!!! I'm listening to this inspirational gentleman while thumbing through William James Bennet's+800 page "Book of Virtues". Kipling's "If" caught my eye. So I tear a piece of paper to mark that spot and continue the skim. At the very moment the Two words "chicken" and "little" are spoken, my eyes lock on to those words on the page. A moment of delicate, 630am serendipity.
Why is physics not a solid foundation? I happen to believe it gives an incredible education in complexity. I was outsmarted by introductory Physics a couple of years ago, and I'm working on building more knowledge and perseverance to tackle it again. I think it's amazing stuff to know, and Newtonian Physics is very relevant always. Newton's First Law of Motion, for example. An object at rest tends to stay at rest (and vice versa). This has given me so many answers to so many problems I've faced in my life. It goes hand in hand with the Second Law of Thermodynamics, which is that systems tend to decay or go towards entropy over time. It gives me the solid foundation in the belief that life requires a fight! Life requires a great input of energy at all times, and you cannot rest on your laurels (lest you get too relaxation-prone and let the decay take over).
Surprisingly entertaining speech.
Kern obviously out of his depth. Fairy tales and stories are a part of the readings suggested by CC Appendix B: www.corestandards.org/assets/Appendix_B.pdf
Cinderella is actually mentioned in the skillls!
De Tocqueville is in Appendix B
Charlotte's Web is in there too.
Laura Ingalls Wilder - yes in there as well.
So his whole point is disproved by the reading suggestions made by CC.
Just for the record, perhaps the stories that stayed with me most was a series of nonfiction books that had the titles something to the effect of Meet Abraham Lincoln and Meet Robert E. Lee.
Practically speaking the increase in informational texts will fall on nearly all teachers. History teachers should leave their textbooks or supplement their textbooks with more books or long articles as well as longish primary sources. Science teachers should do similarly with their textbooks and include articles and possibly books. (Many of the best teachers already do this.)
Ugh--Just WAY too many jokes ...