Former educator, writer, and education activist, Sam Chaltain (@samchaltain) partners with schools and school districts "to help them create healthy, high-functioning learning environments" (passages taken from URL of Chaltain's talk). In this #TED Talk delivered at the Brooklyn Free School (#TEDxBFS) in 2012, Chaltain highlights the recent changes to education and advocates the need for balance: between teacher and student, art and science, and - most fundamentally - between understandings and applications of freedom.
...the biologists are telling us that life - whether it's an ecosystem or a public school system - is best organized by principles of ecology, not hierarchy. The quantum physicists would tell us that change - whether it's a human being or a sub-atomic particle - is best understood by principles of relationship, not force. And we should take heed that freedom - whether it's a teacher or a student - is best unleashed through simple, shared structures, not unbounded prairies. This is the lesson that exists for all of us. This is what the natural world reminds of us every day. This is what Dewey was urging us to think about one hundred years ago. And this is our road map forward: art and science, individual freedom and group structure.What did you think? Please post in the comments section below.
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