Lifelong Learning

What do you need to know and how will you learn it?

Roadtrip Nation Takes the Route Less Traveled

by Madeline Ostrander

posted Sep 09, 2009

Roadtrip Nation, a personal journey turned film, then TV series, and now a youth movement, sends groups of young people out on the road every year to find out how people choose careers they’re passionate about.

Higher Education

by John Taylor Gatto

posted Aug 14, 2009

12 Things You Might Not Have Learned in a Classroom

Soil, Seeds, Salt: Education Brought Down to Earth

by Madhu Suri Prakash

posted Aug 14, 2009

For thousands of young people bored by the irrelevance of what they are learning and moved by the desire to eat food that heals rather than sickens, the message to become the change they wish to see in the world now has the awakening and compelling ring of truth and conviction.

Discussion Guide: Learn as You Go

posted Aug 14, 2009

Article summaries and questions to spark your discussion around the YES! Education issue.

Five Ways to Reschool on the Interweb

by Melia Dicker

posted Aug 14, 2009

Here are five types of online resources to educate you from the comfort of your couch.

How Do You "Know"?

by Ellie Drago-Severson

posted Aug 14, 2009

Understand better how each of us develops, depending on our way of knowing. Are you rule-based or reflective, other-focused or interconnecting?

Quote :: Mark Twain

posted Aug 14, 2009

Download this Mark Twain quote. Hang it up and share the inspiration.

Resource Guide for Life-Long Learning

by Heather Purser

posted Aug 14, 2009

Resources to help you take back your education.

Regenerating Our Learning Commons

posted Aug 14, 2009

Shikshantar presents Udaipur, India as a learning city.

Matt Damon on Facing History

posted Aug 14, 2009

Matt Damon recalls when a Holocaust survivor spoke to his Facing History and Ourselves class when he was in middle school.

Roadtrip Nation

posted Aug 14, 2009

Let Road Trip Nation open your eyes

The Tragic Gap: Between Idealism and Cynicism

by Parker Palmer

posted Aug 14, 2009

Parker Palmer on how to move from what is to what we know to be possible.

People We Love :: Chris Goodman

by Kim Nochi

posted Jul 07, 2009

In defense of a good education.

Marshmallows and Gratification

posted Jul 07, 2009

A TED talk by Joachim de Posada.

You Are Brilliant, and the Earth is Hiring

by Paul Hawken

posted May 27, 2009

The Commencement Address by Paul Hawken to the Class of 2009, University of Portland, May 3, 2009