What is Education?

What is Education?

Problems of living well

The surprising personal benefit of becoming an educator

The surprising personal benefit of becoming an educator

Educational theory and practice, Notes and News, Problems of living well /

Being an educator (where education is genuine and properly conceived as enabling learners to make their lives their own as their duty of self-respect requires) necessarily returns a value equal and reciprocal to the value given to learners. It is impossible to engage in such education properly without challenging and reflecting on one’s own life, […]

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Being an educator (where education is genuine and properly conceived as enabling learners to make their lives their own as their duty of self-respect requires) necessarily returns a value equal and reciprocal to the value given to learners. It is impossible to engage in such education properly without challenging and reflecting on one’s own life,

Brene Brown on shame

Notes and News, Problems of living well, Respect /

  Brene Brown on shame See three of Brene Brown’s TED talks – on “shame” and “vulnerability. She shows how unconditional self-love gets converted into limiting conditional self-esteem, and she describes the damage that this frequently does both the the person and to their relationship with others. From the educational point of view, shaming would

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  Brene Brown on shame See three of Brene Brown’s TED talks – on “shame” and “vulnerability. She shows how unconditional self-love gets converted into limiting conditional self-esteem, and she describes the damage that this frequently does both the the person and to their relationship with others. From the educational point of view, shaming would