by Alex Terego | Feb 1, 2023 | Terego Ideation Bulletins
DON BOSCO In the past few bulletins, I have focused on the “Many Midwives of Learning.” It is my multi-part homage to Socrates who called his method of learning maieutic from the Greek word for midwife, his mother’s profession. The majority of the leading figures in... 
by Alex Terego | Jan 25, 2023 | Terego Ideation Bulletins
WILLIAM JAMES (1842 – 1910.) William was the elder brother of novelist Henry James and Alice James the diarist. The family’s wealth allowed the siblings to pursue a life of the mind. William graduated from Harvard Medical School but never practiced. He was drawn... 
by Alex Terego | Jan 18, 2023 | Terego Ideation Bulletins
HOWARD GARDNER “All human beings possess not just a single intelligence rather we human beings are better described as having a set of autonomous intelligences.” Prof. Howard Gardner Born in 1943, Howard Gardner is a developmental psychologist at the Harvard Graduate... 
by Alex Terego | Jan 4, 2023 | Terego Ideation Bulletins
NOAM CHOMSKY (Part One) Born in 1928, Chomsky has been a dominant voice for change in the way we teach for seventy years. He is recognized as one of the founders of Cognitive Science. Beginning in the 1950’s, his cognitive theory of learning was at odds – to say the... 
by Alex Terego | Dec 14, 2022 | Terego Ideation Bulletins
John Dewey (1859-1952) was one of America’s most prominent scholars. He was one of the major proponents of Progressive Education and Liberalism. He was a passionate advocate for children, believing civil liberty, democracy, freedom, and equality – happiness –... 
by Alex Terego | Dec 7, 2022 | Terego Ideation Bulletins
The rise of industrialized nations in the nineteenth century led to the creation of public schools. These schools were organized to serve the interests of industry, the civil service, and the military, not society or children. During that same transformative period,... 
by Alex Terego | Nov 29, 2022 | Terego Ideation Bulletins
Plato believed that truth exists and is knowable. Socrates taught that true education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel. He said it is not possible to teach children anything, but it is possible to make them think their own way to the truth.... 
by Alex Terego | Nov 23, 2022 | Terego Ideation Bulletins
Learning about learning is as tough a philosophical proposition as there is, right up there with why is there something rather than nothing. The Greeks recognized that trying to understand Learning is so important that they gave it its own category of philosophy.... 
by Alex Terego | Nov 9, 2022 | Terego Ideation Bulletins
“A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it is not open.” Frank Zappa Confirmation bias is the tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information in a way that affirms and supports your prior beliefs, assumptions or hypotheses.... 
by Alex Terego | Nov 2, 2022 | Terego Ideation Bulletins
All children possess agency. In fact, they Are agency. It’s baked in. Agency is simply an intuitive awareness that we all can initiate, execute, and control our actions to construct personal and authentic ideas of self. Anyone who has been around children knows that...
