SHORT FILM: How Fiction Can Change Reality TED-ED

[Ryan Goble]

This also applies to media in general. This excellent short, with cool "dig deeper" links to the right of the video on the Ted-Ed page.

Additional resources and information can be found HERE.

[Michele Vogt-Schuller]

Without a narrative, life has no meaning. Without meaning, learning has no purpose. Without a purpose, schools are houses of detention, not attention.

Neil Postman, The End of Education, 1995

Literature should be on the same shelves as anthropology, said a friend of mine, an anthropologist. It's the way we learn about ourselves and our world

Doris Lessing, Prisons We Choose to Live Inside

Josesph Campbell, Toni Morrison, J.J. Abrams, Vince Gilligan, etc.

[Ryan Goble]

Nicely collected thoughts, MVS!!!  RRG:)