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... 
by Alex Terego | Oct 28, 2022 | Terego Ideation Bulletins
President of the Montessori Foundation Again and again in her writings, Maria tells us to let children figure things out for themselves because that way they will learn. In fact, it is the only way. “Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.”...
