Unmaking Sense

Episode 12.52: If I am who we are, how do I become someone else?

The controlling influences of social, religious and political practices potentially  enslave us to the things they teach as fact. If they also try to dissuade us from thinking, we are doubly disadvantaged. So if society makes us who we are, how do we change? If we abandon our society, do we lose ourselves? Pivotal moments, points and reconsiderations as keys to changes of mind.

Episode 12.51: What do we do when we can’t go on?

Why process-driven education offers more long-term promise than outcome-based education.

Episode 12.50: Why it’s not traditional - v - progressive education.

We need both/and not either/or in education as in life.

Episode 12.49: A summer solstice moment

A brief deviation into astronomy as we explore the geometry of the solstices and equinoxes.

Episode 12.48: Interest-driven education again

Pursuing our passions and interests is the best way to acquire habits of lifelong learning.

Episode 12.47: Balancing collective responsibility with individual freedom

We owe everything to society, but that doesn’t mean society has a right to control our lives. What we owe society most is that we become the best version we can of ourselves.

Episode 12.46: Enjoying travelling not only arriving.

More nuanced discussion of why process is more important than outcome, travelling than arriving, enjoying the present than planning the future.

Episode 12.45: Interest-driven Education

Why arguments against interest-driven education make unwarranted assumptions about what we are supposed to need to know.

Episode 12.44: Teething problems!

A lament about changing platforms.

Episode 12.43: Process and Product

The first Podbean episode recorded while walking local country lanes.