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Good-To-Know Lessons Our Teachers Might Not Have Taught
(Or Maybe We Just Weren't Listening)

Life demands a delicate balancing of freedom and responsibility - the "me" with the "we" - and while it might be true that experience is the best teacher, learning lessons "the hard way" all too often has disastrous effects in a complex society such as ours. With a bit of help from other media producers, let's start to fill in some of our knowledge gaps.

Ranked Choice Voting from RepresentUS, 2017 (video, 4:07) Wealth Inequality in America from Politizane, 2012 (video, 6:23) How Tax Brackets Actually Work from Ezra Klein, 2019 (video, 2:48)
Mastering En-ROADS climate solutions simulator, free course courtesy of Climate Interactive Think Resilience, free course courtesy of the Post Carbon Institute Wealth and Poverty, free course courtesy of Robert Reich

"Transdisciplinarity concerns that which is at once between the disciplines, across the different disciplines, and beyond all discipline. Its goal is the understanding of the present world, of which one of the imperatives is the unity of knowledge."

- Basarab Nicolescu, "The transdisciplinary evolution of learning"

Good-To-Know Lessons Our Teachers Might Not Have Taught(Or Maybe We Just Weren't Listening)

Good-To-Know Lessons Our Teachers Might Not Have Taught
(Or Maybe We Just Weren't Listening)