It is estimated that over two-thirds of the world’s population speaks more than one language. Although the numbers are trending upward, the United States remains the exception, where only about twenty percent of the total population speaks a language other than English at home. American culture, for the most part, still demands conformity. Because we pride ourselves on being a melting pot, we discourage those who come here from elsewhere…
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As featured in Issue 9 of HPM, written by Peter Bergson. Calls for “school reform” and other critiques of traditional forms of education invariably refer to a future state in which “creativity”, “innovation”, “critical thinking” and similar buzzwords are used to identify what employers will be seeking in their applicants, as opposed to the “compliance”, “standardized learning” and “mastery of the basics” sought for factory jobs both past and present….
Read more...I’m not aware of any official Fun Theory in the field of learning. But fun shimmers under the surface of motivation and focus like a very big fish. And the fish named Fun shouldn’t be ignored. I lifted the term Fun Theory from an old Volkswagen campaign. One of their videos shows busy commuters choosing an escalator instead of a staircase. People are rarely motivated to do otherwise. But when…
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