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Liz Coleman on Education and ABC of Learning

Monday, July 26th, 2010

Bennington president Liz Coleman delivers a call-to-arms for radical reform in higher education. Bucking the trend to push students toward increasingly narrow areas of study, she proposes a truly cross-disciplinary education — one that dynamically combines all areas of study to address the great problems of our day.

I have really enjoyed listening to this TED presentation where Liz has suggested that we need to promote a generalist education. She is calling for Active Citizens to do things that will help change the world for betterment.

What do you think of what she has to day? You have a mind and you have other people, start with those and change the world!

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Leading through Active Citizenship

Thursday, July 22nd, 2010

I was going into Dublin on last week and there were three young girls about eight or nine on my street with a little table selling stuff. I went over to it and they were selling sweets.

They asked me did I want to buy something and that the money was going to a good cause. I asked them what the cause was and they told me all the profits were going to help the people that were affected by the Haiti earthquake.

Needless to say I was delighted to see three young Active Citizens who were leading through Active Citizenship at such a young age. There are quite a few people out in the world who are three and four times the age of these young girls that would not show such great leadership.

I paid €10 for a bar of chocolate and the young girls were delighted and I was so happy to see some young active citizens on my street. I also let them know about Active Citizenship week that is happening in Ireland from the 3rd to the 10th of October and pointed them to the website www.fifty-ways.com

This was a great example to me that sometimes we can overcomplicate simple things and that it can be good to just get out and do something simple like selling chocolate bars.

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