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Reference: Course on Subject Clearing

“The other big issue is conformity. We have built our education systems on the model of fast food… You know there are two models of quality assurance in catering. One is fast food, where everything is standardized. The other are …, where everything is not standardized, they’re customized to local circumstances. And we have sold ourselves into a fast food model of education, and it’s impoverishing our spirit and our energies as much as fast food is depleting our physical bodies.” – Sir Ken Robinson

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Key Articles

1. Grass Roots Learning Revolution
2. Education Fundamentals
3. Education and Self-Learning
4. The Future of Education
5. Course in Subject Clearing

Educational Approaches

1. 5 Alternative Teaching Methods (Montessori, Waldorf, etc.)
2. Learning from a barefoot movement
3. Brilliant Teacher with a large heart!
4. MIT and Harvard announce edX
5. New Paradigm for Education is needed
6. KHAN ACADEMY for the world

Videos & Documentaries

1. Do Schools Kill Creativity (Ken Robinson on TED, Feb 2006)
2. Bring on the Learning Revolution! (Ken Robinson on TED, Feb 2010)
3. How to Escape Education’s Death … (Ken Robinson on TED, Feb 2013)
4. Future of Education by Sal Khan
5. Kids can Teach Themselves (Sugata Mitra on TED, August 2008)
6. Build a School in the Cloud (Sugata Mitra on TED, Feb 2013)
7. Your Elusive Creative Genius (Elizabeth Gilbert on TED, Feb 2009)
8. Finnish First
9. Finland’s successful school reform
10. Take a Lesson from Singapore

Books

1. The One World Schoolhouse by Sal Khan
2. In Search of Memory by Eric Kandel
3. John Dewey

Self-Learning

1. Education and Self-Learning
2. The First Hole in Understanding
3. The Second Hole in Understanding
4. Subsequent Holes in Understanding
5. Blanks in Understanding
6. The Earlier Blanks
7. Filling the Blanks

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