Teaching is ‘not like making motorcars’

Sir Ken Robinson is on the offensive once more, arguing that we are facing a dangerous situation in our current global industrial style of education. It appears he gave another TED talk this year, with his last one being in 2006 which I shared here. This time around, he also gave a brief interview with …

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Are Schools Killing Creativity?

I don’t have a lot of time to write at the moment, but I came across this video and had to share it. Promoting creativity in schools is a strong passion of mine, and in this video Ken Robinson argues how we are currently killing creativity in children and teaching them to be afraid of …

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Chess – Dress Rehearsal

“Remember, it’s only a game! Muahahaha” Dress rehearsal tonight went very very well, minus a very fixable glitch or two. The pit and singers are working really well with each other now. It should be a great show. I’ll be running through my book to fix a thing or two, but aside from that I …

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We Go On Pretending…

New song of the day from Chess. I think this fits my feelings perfectly, lyrically. “You and I, we’ve seen it all, chasing our hearts’ desire. But we go on pretending stories like ours have happy endings.” Unfortunately I cannot embed this one, but it’s a beautiful piece of music, and a tragic way to …

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Chess Rehearsal, Day 1

I got back from La Crosse not too long ago after the pit-only rehearsal of “Chess” at Viterbo University. Unfortunately the contract was wrong, so we got through less than half of the book before we had to call it. We were contracted until 8, however we were SUPPOSED to rehearse until 10. I would …

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