The things I didn't learn in school

[Lisa Westbrook]

Judy,

I am chuckling, because it's not just in college that there is stuff  
I didn't learn but should have!

Here's just a few from my working list of texts I wish I had been  
exposed to in High School..... ;- )

1. Ozymandias (which I think should be the poem hanging on the wall  
in every city planners office)
2. Kant's Perpetual Peace document about intelligent decision making  
at the local and state level
3. Franklin's Information to Those who Would Remove to America (1782)
4. The Background of Modern Poetry  by J. Isaacs (1952)
5. On Liberty by J.S. Mill (1859)
6. Mind Tools, The Five Levels of Mathematical Reality by Rudy Rucker  
(1987)
7. Ancient, Medieval and Modern History, J.A. Rickard and Albert Hyma  
(1957) -
(this little history gem is in chronology format, text only, without  
distracting and unrelated graphics,
  I'd choose it over a pile of modern history textbooks)

I feel I am just now learning though I am nearly half a century old!

Lisa


On Jul 28, 2005, at 12:30 PM, Judy Perry wrote:

Mark,

I didn't read that into your work; my curiosity was simply piqued by the
stimulus of new educational learning theories (e.g., stuff they didn't
teach you in college but maybe should have!).

Judy

On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Mark Greenberg wrote:


>     Please don't read too much into the word "Constructionism" in the
> readme file for my Combinations stack.  The book I just finished used
> both terms "Constructionism" and "Constructivism," so when I typed the
> readme, I typed one instead of the more accepted other.  I did not
> intend to imply Papert over Piaget or any other flavor of the idea  
> that
> students build their knowledge internally rather than gather it in
> predetermined chunks from outside.
>     Also, I did not mean to imply that my stacks are particularly
> Constructivist in nature.  They're not.  I hope that my designs will
> lean more that direction in the future.
>

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