“You have to be confused before you can reach a new level of understanding anything.” — D. Herschbach (Harvard University chemist and Nobel laureate)
In the summer of 2007, I attended “Boot Camp for Profs” in Leadville, Colorado. For an entire week, a maverick team of educators from multiple disciplines — geology, chemistry, education, biology, and psychology among others — bombarded 30 college and university professors with the theory and practice of learning. Mind you, I didn’t say teaching. Beholden to no educational model except “what works,” this no-nonsense, eclectic group had for years refused offers to sell out to the latest educational fad. They weren’t into either dogma or money. Their mantra was classroom effectiveness, pure and simple. “Boot camp” was a fitting term; the experience was overwhelming, eye-opening, occasionally exhilarating or terrifying, and immensely practical.
Via Susan Poling.