Rehinking Traditional Education
The last TEDx Grand Rapids talk has me thankful for my background in homeschooling, but it’s nothing exclusive. The same ideas I picked up from my schooling are useful everywhere. “Personalized education” as Luis de la Fuente called it. Everyone has that opportunity.
Everything became a field trip, an experiment, a research project. I was taught that education is everywhere.
We’re different. We learn differently. If our education methods encourage our unique learning styles and passions, we’ll embrace learning something meaningful from every situation. Gaining good from every person and every experience will be inevitable.
We are thrilled to announce that our talks from this year’s conference TEDxUofM Untapped_ can now be found online. Scroll below to find the list of speakers and talks.
Robert Quinn: Untapped_exchange
Robert Quinn holds the Margaret Elliot Tracey Collegiate Professorship at the…
To think this was my second home. And a little over a year ago I dove in completely to learn everything I could about propagation, irrigation, cultivation, and the whole gamut. Do I miss it, more than I can express. Will I go back? I don’t need to. I took it with me. (at Blake’s Big Apple Orchard)
Favorite shot of the night. Credits in part to @jeffwegner’s camera. #nn313 (at Tangent Gallery / Hastings Street Ballroom)
My office is better than yours! ;) #workshifting #greatoutdoors (at Rochester Municipal Park)
OMG I FOUND IT! The song I always loved at the Royal Oak Bean & Leaf but only could remember the background sound! YES!
Somewhere back there I left my worries all behind.
My problems fell out of the back of my mind.
We’re going and I’m never knowing where we’re going.
To go back to where I was would just be wrong.
I’m pressing on.
Pressing on, all my distress is going, going, gone.
And I won’t sit back, and take this anymore.
‘Cause I’m done with that, I’ve got one foot out the door.
And to go back where I was would just be wrong
I’m pressing on.
Every. Single. Word.
Well, she was precious like a flower
She grew wild, wild but innocent
A perfect prayer in a desperate hour
She was everything beautiful and different
Stupid boy, you can’t fence that in
Stupid boy, it’s like holding back the wind
She laid her heart and soul right in your hands
And you stole her every dream and you crushed her plans
She never even knew she had a choice and that’s what happens
When the only voice she hears is telling her she can’t
Stupid boy
So what made you think you could take a life
And just push it push it around
I guess to build yourself up so high
You had to take her and break her down
Oh, you always had to be right but now you’ve lost
The only thing that ever made you feel alive
It took awhile for her to figure out she could run
But when she did, she was long gone, long gone
Ah, she’s gone, she’s long gone.
Told myself that you were right for me but felt so lonely in your company. // Now and then I think of all the times you screwed me over, But had me believin it was always something that I’d done. But I don’t wanna live that way; Reading into every word you say.
Now you’re just somebody that I used to know.
This is how I show my love
I made it in my mind because
I blame it on my A.D.D. baby
Maybe I’m a different breed
Maybe I’m not listening
So blame it on my A.D.D. baby
