Inspiring Students: Bringing Awe Back to Learning

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Inspiring Students: Bringing Awe Back to Learning
Eric Sheninger, A Principal's Reflections, 2016/06/28

In his monumental work The Idea of the Holy Rudolf Otto wrote of the 'numinous' as mysterious, (mysterium) terrifying (tremendum) and fascinating (fascinans). This post seems to want to do the same thing for education. The key of the tremendous and fascinating is that it holds us in awe. More...