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John Hunter puts all the problems of the world on a 4’x5′ plywood board and lets his 4th-graders solve them. He explains how his World Peace Game engages school kids, and why the complex lessons it teaches spontaneous, and always surprising go further than classroom lectures can.
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Robert Gupta, violinist with the L.A Philharmonic, talks about a violin lesson he once gave to a brilliant, schizophrenic musician and what he learned. Called back onstage later, Gupta plays his own transcription of the prelude from Bach’s Cello Suite No. 1.
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The weather like so much else about our lives can be so unpredictable. Personally, I have rather a love-hate relationship with unpredictability. I hate the ‘not knowing’ characteristic of it because
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Most times when you’re growing up I can’t help thinking how little we pay attention to the details in our lives as they unfold. I was thinking about Miz who was my literary mentor many years ago now. She’s since passed away having accomplished for herself the title of novelist. She always told me,
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