The Film Club

Meet David Gilmour April 8 at Cinema du Parc   Admission Info

Here are two interviews with David Gilmour and his son Jesse, explaining the genesis of "The Film Club"





Now watch these clips from a speech by Sir Ken Robinson entitled "Do Schools Destroy Creativity" After watching these three videos, reflect on your own experience as a student. What has worked? What didn't work? Why?



In small groups, reflect on these quotations about education:

1. Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
                —Socrates (470 BC-399 BC)

2. A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions.
                --Anonymous

3. The only thing more expensive than education is ignorance.
               --Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

4. I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
               –Mark Twain (1835-1910)

5. Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
               –Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

6. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
               –Will Durant (1885-1981)