This utter blindness is striking and brings me despair, yet our thinking about education is strangely unaffected by the common sense that fills other areas of life.
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"I must do something to help these children get an education, " she recalls thinking.
By providing young people with the capabilities for critical thinking, secondary education can help improve overall standards of living, especially in the least developed countries.
The main objective of this programme is to build capacity in the field of science education and develop of scientific thinking and experimentation among primary and secondary students as well as academics.
Stimulate strategic thinking in higher education development at both global and national levels taking into account state of the art knowledge, needs of the Governments, as well as initiatives and services provided by international development agencies.
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We have become so indoctrinated with this way of thinking by our education (with the way they taught us to think) and our organizations (with the way they go about solving problems) that it is more or less the only way we approach anything.
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Too many Americans are delusional in thinking we have a national education system that is fair.
The Department of Education has a great primer on the thinking behind and the plan for ARPA-ED here.
But we cannot mislead students into thinking that getting a college education is as easy as downloading a song from iTunes.
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Basically, that regardless of all the reports of debt and dismal job prospects facing recent college grads, families are a long way from re-thinking the value of higher education.
Stimulate strategic thinking in the area of education planning and management taking into account state of the art knowledge, needs of the Governments, as well as initiatives and services provided by international development agencies.
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Since college usually involves leveraging enormous debt loads, students are thinking twice before enrolling in higher education.
For many parents, the emphasis on creativity and analytical thinking in U.S. education makes the expense of sending a child to study abroad worthwhile.
The thinking goes like this: the Education Minister, Leighton Andrews and his deputy, Jeff Cuthbert, know the credibility of the new Wales-only exams will be absolutely critical for head teachers, parents, pupils, employers, universities and yes, voters.
RocketHub, as readers of my column are likely aware, is a forward-thinking crowdfunding platform that is working drive education on the power of online fundraising.
The fact of the matter is, we are not prioritizing public education any more, and we are certainly not thinking of it in egalitarian terms.
Shadow education secretary Stephen Twigg said it was wrong to be thinking about changing the system while the row over this year's grades continued.
To get to the heart of the problem of US schools, we need to be thinking through more fundamentally: What is the goal of education?
As for Thiel, his forward thinking in business and philanthropy, specifically is current efforts around disrupting education is a model for future philanthropy.
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By staying open-minded and flexible in his thinking, he was able to move to a market niche (education) that his organization was particularly well suited for.
Innovate by creating a world class education system from kindergarten to college that fosters and rewards ideas and free-thinking, and reduce costly regulation that hinders the entrepreneurial spirit.
This pioneering culture expresses itself through an education system that, while not without many challenges, emphasizes critical and independent thinking far more than the vast majority of its counterparts around the world.
And so a fog of wishful thinking, euphemisms, and well-intended egalitarianism hangs over the discussion of education, obscuring simple truths.
Without really thinking, Mr Blair has subscribed to the idea that headlong expansion of higher education is a good thing.
By re-thinking how the federal government can foster innovation and competitiveness in clean energy, from education and research to commercialization and production, the United States can once again become a global leader in clean energy technology.
The institution provides tools and resources to help the U.S. education system keep up with global competitors by combing the traditional 3Rs with the 4Cs (Critical thinking and problem solving, Communication, Collaboration, and Creativity and innovation).
You may find this line of thinking strange coming from me, as someone who has dedicated her life to financial education, but in truth finances should support your life, your life should not support your finances.
And those widening gaps, those widening salary differentials, continue to widen because again once you internalise the notion of the higher education project being about private return for private investment then obviously individual members of the faculty begin thinking to themselves and understanding their mission in private rather than public ways.
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This will bring in changes in education, health care, retail and restaurant experiences, automobiles, etc, as we stop thinking of these things as expensive computers and start thinking of them as replacements for paper.
Media and information literacy, through which individuals acquire a combination of technical and cognitive skills to seek, evaluate and use information effectively, develop critical thinking and acquire the behaviours for life-long learning, is becoming the engine of education in the 21st century.
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