Just starting out...

Monday, August 22, 2005

We are a group of education policy students at The George Washington University who are attempting to create dialogue, policy ideas, and build community amongst us. We come from diverse education experiences. We are teachers, policymakers, parents, activists, and researchers. While we may all come from different backgrounds, we are united under a common belief in the importance of education in our society and in our world.

Socrates wrote, "Education is the kindling of a flame; not the filling of a vessel". We intend this edublog to be a place where we can come together to fuel our curiosity, to learn a little more about the topics that interest us, and to engage in meaningful conversation together about education policy. It is not our intent for this site to be the end of our search for knowledge, but rather the beginning. A kindled flame.

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3 Comments:

I'm so excited that this is getting put in a blog format. I've always thought E's Education Policy weekly updates are fantastic, but I wanted a way to archive them and save them for future use. The blog lets us do that. Yay! Yay!

Leigh
By Anonymous, at August 22, 2005 1:17 PM

Yes-- I think this is great! So psyched to make our reading of education news more of a discussion... hooray for building a community!
By NMD, at August 23, 2005 9:56 AM

Hopefully we can enlist some of the newbies to sign up and participate! Should we try to get a handout together for the Ed. Policy student orientation?
JW
By Anonymous, at August 26, 2005 11:43 AM

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why kindling flames?

Socrates wrote, "Education is the kindling of a flame; not the filling of a vessel." This edublog is a place for us to come together as students, to learn more about the topics that interest us, and to engage in meaningful conversation about education policy. This site is not the end of our search for knowledge, but rather the beginning. A kindled flame.

who are we?

We are a group of education policy students at The George Washington University who are attempting to create dialogue, discuss policy issues, and build community. We come from diverse education experiences. We are teachers, policymakers, parents, activists, and researchers. While we may come from different backgrounds and have different perspectives, we are united under a common belief in the importance of education.
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