The Bench

  By Thomas H. Cannon John is sitting on a bench looking at a most beautiful seascape when a jumping spasm in his hand pulls his attention down into his lap.  He is confused to see a wrinkled pile of old hands resting there.  A moment passes before he realizes those are his hands. It’s …

Force Analysis of Higher Education Part II: Post War Expansion

Introduction Sarah Ooro (2013) acknowledges that massive change, such as globalization, is greatly affecting higher education, and makes a reasonable attempt to predict the new role such change will create for students, instructors, and administration. The digitization of content, the economic need to make an investment in higher education show a profitable return, and the …

Force Analysis of Mass Education Part I: The Great War

Lots of Blocking in Education: The Trenches Institutional blindness to a problem is actually a form of blocking. People can't even brick up some issues for fear of retribution from those forces that block change. They are so powerful that an honest analysis can't even be discussed, like politicians that can't even discussion social security …

Piaget, Cognitive Development, and Mind Tree X’s 3 Educational Philosophies

What is Cognitive Development? The growth and maturation of the prefrontal lobs and the unique cognitive characteristics that come with such incredibly advanced mental equipment is the driving force behind cognitive development.  Jean Piaget explored and provided an age based scale by which educators might gauge what they could reasonably expect from a child as …