On April 21
st we had the good fortune to attend a special presentation in Manhattan by Zoe Weil, founder of the Institute for Humane Education and Grammy-nominated Matt Goldman, co-founder of the Blue Man Group and the Blue School. Among other topics in their wide-ranging discourse about education reform, Zoe talked about her newly released boon,
The World Becomes What We Teach: Educating a Generation of Solutionaries, which is available in the AERO bookstore. This is her seventh book. Of course, the Blue Man Group’s performances are world-famous. And the Blue School has been referenced by Sir Ken Robinson as an example of what he things a school should be. It has a learner-centered approach.
Zoe feels that schools need to be focused more on finding the solutions to local national and world problems, and basing the curriculum on questions about these problems that children want to have answered.
