Common Good Learning - Lessons Our Teachers Might Not Have Taught

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

While it might be true that experience is the best teacher, learning lessons "the hard way" all too often has deleterious 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 by choosing one of the following transdisciplinary issues worthy of attention.

on logical implications: "If School, Then No Heavy Industry" argument,
from Common Good Learning
Wealth Inequality in America,
from Politizane (6:23)
How Tax Brackets Actually Work,
from Ezra Klein (2:48)
The Difference When Using a Credit Union (Versus a Bank),
from Make Your Money Matter (1:13)
on corporate power: The Story of Citizens United vs. FEC,
from The Story of Stuff Project (8:50)

"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"

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

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