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Dialogue: 0,0:00:01.46,0:00:03.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On the relevance of education...
Dialogue: 0,0:00:03.50,0:00:06.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, what’s the purpose and relevance of education?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:06.09,0:00:07.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why is it pertinent?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:07.67,0:00:10.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think about Jerome Bruner in his “Towards a theory of instruction”
Dialogue: 0,0:00:10.97,0:00:13.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or “The Process of Education”,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:13.01,0:00:15.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where he talks about how strange a thing education is.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:15.35,0:00:18.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Human beings are the species that educates.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:18.16,0:00:20.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We take our young, we school our young,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:20.82,0:00:23.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we transmit our culture, we transmit our values,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:23.95,0:00:25.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we transmit our beliefs,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:25.70,0:00:29.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as a way of not having to start afresh with each new life,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.10,0:00:31.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we can actually build over time,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:31.24,0:00:34.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and build in a way that goes beyond an individual life time.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:34.35,0:00:38.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At the same time, as we build on the past,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.01,0:00:42.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we also have to build in the opportunity and the necessity for innovation.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:42.63,0:00:45.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And to me, that’s where education is most interesting.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.92,0:00:48.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In that fundamental middle spot between
Dialogue: 0,0:00:48.90,0:00:54.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,serving the past and giving every student tools and inspiration
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.12,0:00:55.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to be able to innovate,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.61,0:00:59.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to be able to start afresh and come up with an idea no one has come up with before.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:59.66,0:01:01.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That to me is the glory of it;
Dialogue: 0,0:01:01.99,0:01:03.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it’s the vexation of it too,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:03.40,0:01:04.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because you never know.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:04.97,0:01:07.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Are you being too much on the cultural conservation?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.84,0:01:09.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Are you being too anarchic?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:09.69,0:01:12.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But finding that sweet spot in there,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.07,0:01:14.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where that tension is most keenly felt,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:14.58,0:01:18.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,students feel respect for the past because the past has made them.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:18.99,0:01:23.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At the same time, feeling completely skeptical and wide open,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.44,0:01:26.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and joyously curious about boundless possibilities.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:26.57,0:01:29.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you could do both of those, it seems to me you have a real school.