VIDEOS, LINKS, QUOTATIONS, and other INSPIRATION
To start a school is to proclaim what it means to be human.
--Tom James
In education as in medicine,
you must harvest the wisdom of a thousand years.
--Prince Max von Baden
LEARNING OUTCOMES
seen as important by college faculty, employers and accreditors
critical thinking
writing
quantitative literacy
oral communication
ethics
teamwork
intercultural understanding
integrating learning from one area to another
and others. . .
What is architecture anyway? Is it the vast collection of the various buildings which have been built to please the varying tastes of the various lords of mankind? I think not. No, I know that architecture is life; or at least it is life itself taking form and therefore it is the truest record of life as it was lived in the world yesterday, as it is lived today or ever will be lived…So, architecture I know to be a Great Spirit.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
children should do things in school, rather than just sit and receive information
Mechanical Principles by Ralph Steiner (1930)
WALLS of CHANGE
There is more in you than you think.
Francisco Goya, Hans Holbein, Edouard Manet, Johannes Vermeer, John Singer Sargent, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, Anthony Van Dyck
Wintergaten
Marble Machine
URBAN OUTLAW
Adventure Playgrounds
where children are encouraged to play freely and take risks.
“In half an hour this film will change everything you think you believe ... In scene after natural scene the truth becomes obvious: With a little bit of creativity, empathy and guidance, children can be freed to experience a much more fun, adventurous and fulfilling childhood.”
— Hanna Rosin, The Atlantic