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January 14, 2005

Recommended: A Touch of Greatness

If you get a chance, I recommend watching or recording “A Touch of Greatness” on PBS (TiVo link), a documentary about an New York elementary school teacher named Albert Cullum. Cullum rejected the standard sit-down and read education that still takes place today in favor of an active "play" approach to learning and encouraged his students to act in Shakespeare plays. It's exhilarating and inspiring to watch archival footage of some of his students acting and dancing more skillfully than in shows that we watch on television.

Posted by timothompson at January 14, 2005 03:21 PM