Real Talk for Real Teachers: Audio of an interview of veteran teacher Rafe Esquith

After listening to veteran teacher Rafe Esquith's words of wisdom during a radio broadcast of WNYC's Leonard Lopate Show yesterday, I thought I'd share the audio on this blog, and also a link to his upcoming book. 


In my opinion, every politician who is involved in making decisions about education should listen to this interview and plan on reading the book!




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Video Interview of 114-Year-Old Wlater Bruening: Words of wisdom from the timeline of his life

"Everyday is a good day...and make it that way!" - Walter Bruening



Some quotes from the video:

If you could give one piece of advice to today's youth, what would it be?

"I'd tell them to stay in school, get educated, as much as you can, because if you're not educated today, fully, all about computers and everything like that, you are not going to get a job, because you got to be fully qualified to go to work on any kind of job right now."


Walter Bruening's words to live by:
"Be good to everybody, be kind to them."
"People should be helping other people."
"The more you do for other people, the better your going to help your self."

Interview of Walter Breuning at age 11, includes a multimedia timeline:
(Video starts at the end of the CSI ad)


Idea:
Although younger generations will leave the world digital legacies in some form or another,  the ideas, and views of our elders are not often found online. Wouldn't it be great if we could capture the wisdom of our elders in a broad way and get it on the web?

It would be great if students in schools around the world could work on a shared on-line multimedia timeline project like this, highlighting their elderly relatives and friends of the family!

If something like this exists, please let me know.

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Cross-posted on the Interactive Multimedia Technology blog