Big Thinkers on Education
Some of the world's most brilliant minds -- from Howard Gardner to Jane Goodall to Martin Scorsese -- share their ideas for improving education.
Some of the world's most brilliant minds -- from Howard Gardner to Jane Goodall to Martin Scorsese -- share their ideas for improving education.
Change starts with an idea. That was true of the American Revolution and the microchip. It's equally true of the big changes that the American public education system is just starting to make. And despite the headlines, some of the most exciting minds are focusing their attention on the world of education.
Take a look at some of the most innovative, surprising, intriguing, and inspiring ideas from some of the biggest thinkers Edutopia has featured.
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Award-winning futurist, author, and founder and Director of Global Operations for the Thornburg Center.
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The president and CEO of the advocacy organization Center for Teaching Quality
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Stanford University education professor and adviser to the U.S. Department of Education
- The Collaborative Classroom: Linda Darling-Hammond on SEL
- Linda Darling-Hammond on Becoming Internationally Competitive
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The former CEO of Chicago Public Schools, now secretary of education for President Obama
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Harvard University professor and author of twenty books, best known for his theory of multiple intelligences
- Q&A: An Interview with the Father of Multiple Intelligences
- Howard Gardner on Multiple Intelligences
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Professor of literacy studies at Arizona State University and author of What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy
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Psychologist, journalist, and the best-selling author of Emotional Intelligence and other books
- Daniel Goleman on Social Emotional Learning
- George Lucas and Daniel Goleman: Educating Hearts and Minds
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Groundbreaking primate researcher and founder of the Jane Goodall Institute
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Cultural anthropologist studying new media use, particularly among young people in Japan and the United States
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The founder of the Khan Academy, a free educational video library that features over two thousand titles
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Maker of the Star Wars and Indiana Jones films and founder and chairman of the George Lucas Educational Foundation
- George Lucas at Dreamforce: Sharing His Hope for Education
- Life on the Screen: Visual Literacy in Education
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Artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center and winner of a Pulitzer Prize in music for his work Blood on the Fields
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Former Dean of Pixar University, which provides employees of the animation company a broad fine-arts education
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International leader in creativity, innovation, and educational reform and the author of Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative
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Executive Director of the Institute of Play and professor of design and technology at Parsons The New School for Design
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Academy Award-winning director of Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Goodfellas, the Departed, and many other films
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Futurist and co-author, with his wife, Heidi, of Future Shock and The Third Wave
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The founder of the Chez Panisse Foundation, which promotes healthy school-lunch programs and runs the Edible Schoolyard projects.
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Neurologist turned educator with the University of California, Santa Barbara's graduate school of education
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