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“The Opinion Show”
Poem: “To a Thinker” by Robert Frost
Statement of the Whole: How much of the classroom experience should be humane conversation? Is conversation or dialogue a better way to teach than lecture? Can conversation alone move the world toward the Good? Jason and Steve assert in this podcast that conversation is the basis of much of what is truly education.
- Introduction: What is conversation and why is it important? — two people talking about some common thing
- How can conversation educate?
- At the heart of answering this is the notion that “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” (Aristotle)
- Difference between sharing opinions and sifting opinions
- A school is a conversation
- Student and teacher
- teacher and teacher
- parent and school
- student to student
- culture and community, etc.