TEDxUFM: Michael Strong - Socratic Practice as Disruptive Technology
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- Michael Strong is the Chief Visionary Officer of FLOW, Inc. He is also the author of "The Habit of Thought: From Socratic Seminars to Socratic Practice". Michael's work is featured in academic journals (The Journal of Business Ethics, Economic Affairs, Critical Review, etc.), specialty publications (Microfinance Insights, Policy Innovations, Carnegie Ethics, etc.), and popular media (The New York Times, Bloomberg, The Huffington Post, RealClearPolitics, Barron's, etc.).
He serves on the board of the Seasteading Institute and works as a mentor for developing world entrepreneurs for the MIT Legatum Center for Entrepreneurship and Development. Michael is also a board member of the Free Cities Institute at UFM.
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If you're a teacher, you "get" this; you see the practicality of it, and you understand the beauty & truth of the speaker's description of the reality of classrooms. I'm a high school teacher, and really appreciate how this video doesn't provide a list of what to do, but rather a way to view the task(s) before us. Getting students to be busy is easy, Getting them to sit, listen, read, think, reflect, thoughtfully annotate texts, question, and share is the magic & charge of teaching that so many don't realize is our daily charge and goal. Thanks.
ye l used to teach and l agree with you
I met Michael Strong in 1996 at AR's first national conference in Nashville. I cancelled another seminar to retake the seminar I had just finished, and then I took that practice to my seventh grade classes. Too scared at first to go all out...it was simply too beautiful and clear to be real...I opened it to one class. After some prep that Strong sets up, I set aside the next day for a Socratic discussion. At the end of 45 minutes as the bell time approached, I called the class to order and noted for their shocked and surprised ears: "I don't know if you noticed, but I have not spoken for 45 minutes." I opened it to all classes and now use a variation in my Adult Education classes. At first, some students are still very angry; tell us the answer, they clamor. They come around. The teacher is the adult. The teacher is the thinker. Leading by strong and consistent and loving patience will bring students around. The Habit of Thought is Strong's book.
Christopher Adams American Renaissance?!?
I also shared struggles with parents and students yearly as they grasped to understand why I didn't give answers to students, but instead expected students to debate and support their own perspectives. THIS is true learning! I couldn't teach any other way.
"The disruptive technology is YOU" is one of the coolest and most empowering ideas I´ve heard. This was a very good TEDxTalk.
Couldn't agree more!
13:22 "No matter how allegedly smart, expert, mature, or whatever, people are, no one can see all of reality. Reality is infinitely complex. And because reality is infinitely complex each of us has a personal obligation to learn an accurate expression of our relationship to that reality and tell the world about it. *If you don't tell the world what reality is like for you, you're going to have the equivalent of planes crashing into mountains.*"
"True wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” - Socrates. "Learning never exhausts the mind." - Leonardo da Vinci. Mr. Michael Strong, astute edutainment talk. Thank you! Cheers.
Michael Strong traveled to San Antonio to teach workshops, in which I participated, around 1996. I have been using what he taught us in the classroom for the last 20 years. In addition, I have found that my administrators have appreciated the questions that would pose, recognizing the value of the dialogue that ensued.
Every individual has the responsibility to take ownership of their thinking, motivation, speech and action and their mind-body; cultivate themselves in ways that the harmful conditioning by authorities, culture, race, gender, guild and such lose their hold on us, so culture, community and society can evolve and consciously renew itself as part of the web of life.
Bravo on your views and a wonderful description of what happens in true education.
Too bad you didn´t travel a bit more southward here, to Costa Rica.Michael...it´s an honor. I´m currently reading your book "Be the Solution"...it makes want to go out and "be the solution".
"Teaching is a kindling of a flame 🔥 not 🚫 the filling of a vessel."
This is wise human being. as a student of the News Testament I can find many of his thoughts scriptural. Did the preceding offend you if so why? My inner genius tells me I will copy the thoughts of a true genius. Because It affirms my view of what it is truly beautiful.
Einstein said, “Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.” He thought that we are held captive by our egos. He explained that we find meaning and hope by “widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.” And in my opinion the most beautiful thing a human can do is produce the fruits of the Holy Spirit. Love
Joy. Peace,Patience,Kindness,Goodness,Faithfulness,Gentleness
Self-control. Of course to produce traits is not easy but the reward for doing so is a can lead to and more peaceful world. Science is the road to knowledge but not truth itself.
I don't know why the comments below are so unaware of history, eastern attitudes versus western, how the ancient greeks started us down the road of analyzing stuff without referring to authority or religion, etcetcetc. The Athenians beat back the overwhelmingly larger oriental Persians, because individuality, & fighting for their own not some king of kings, etc gave them an imperative that "slaves" simply won't go that extra mile....unawareness of what the presocratic & socratic philosophies & aristotelian philosophies, opened so many doors for humanity that happened NOWHERE else in the world! historical understanding is so poorly taught & understood!!! but I am not sure any of the quickie tedtalks on philosophy-slash-BUSINESS people, yuk. psychobabble me thinks. :(
Look up Peter Thiel / Rene Girard for further on mimetic theory
This is why I have inner issues every day of my life :/ ... because I know something is not right and I quite
What is UFM?
Is a consciousness ad cons cious action a balancing of contradictions?are we always balancing contradictions,?
anyone else here watching this again cuz u didnt take notes in class?
Where this whole talk take us? Could this talk have been a little more brief? Could he have got the point with little more ease? Could this talk have finished in lesser time?
I wonder if Michel Strong is a #Voluntaryist.
Yes.
pretty sure that whole left/right brain thing has been debunked
I'm guessing that 'UFM' is Universidad Francisco Marroquin?
melancholiac Thanks, I was wondering that too. I guess that's it.
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What a novel idea. It is sad that education has been so perverted, we now have to teach kids critical thinking. Think for yourself.
how did you come to the conclusion that north korea is a dictatorial country? because a copilot couldnt tell a pilot about the plane crashing,? i work in a compnay in the U.S i cant tell my boss wrong, he always like to be right even if he is wrong, does that make U.S a dictatorial country.
john bake South Korea not north
i dont know why the occidental thinks the unique and most powerfull philosofy is greeece, all the word have diferents ways to see the live and, propably cant understand the respect, and social thinking of oriental thinking system, so just say, "that people is not civilizated"...
Not every culture is equal. Some cultures are superior to others whether you like it or not.
well, you, using a computer can thank the greek thinkers who began humanity down the road to analyzing stuff! guess history just isn't part of society any more! so sad. mr. superblahblahblah lol
What?
Dude, your jokes.
what a bunch of drivel. I could spend an hour typing a response to each of his ignorant ideas, but I have a plane to crash.
Boring with no practical take away.