Education for Well-being Education as if people and the planet mattered

“If success or failure of the planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do… How would I be? What would I do?”
 
-Buckminster Fuller

The Buckminster Fuller Challenge from Buckminster Fuller Institute on Vimeo.

Why do some organizations that promote competition operate as partnerships?  Hmmm.

“…current economic challenges cannot be adequately addressed without focusing on America’s competitiveness, which is intrinsically tied to the ability of Americans to effectively compete in the new global economy.” (source)
In the press release titled, The Partnership Offers Recommendations to Help the Obama White House Forge [...]

An article that needs more reads; by Alfie Kohn
It begins:
Here are some phrases that might reassure us if they were used to defend a particular education policy: “excitement about learning” . . . “deeper thinking about questions that matter” . . . “promoting social and moral [...]

In a lead-in to our school’s multi-cultural celebration (read: a Festivus for the rest of us) our students had the pleasure to listen to a rabbi’s words about tolerance and diversity. Many good points were made, some of them old favorites like the difference between the melting pot and the salad bowl, others, less obvious. [...]

“I’m here to enlist you in helping to reshape the story about how humans and other critters get things done.” Howard Rheingold at TED Talks
(All quotes below are from video.)
Old story: “Biology is war in which only the fiercest survive. Businesses and nations succeed only by defeating, destroying and dominating competition. Politics is about your [...]

We live in a competitive culture. On the cover of the Dec. 17, 2007 edition of the Wall Street Journal is an article about competitive knitting billed as “the bloodiest extreme knitting tournament”. “Sock Wars”, it goes on to say, “brings out the bloodthirsty instincts in the knitting community…” Meant to bring some levity to [...]