{"id":14683,"date":"2021-08-24T09:58:14","date_gmt":"2021-08-24T13:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=14683"},"modified":"2021-08-24T09:58:19","modified_gmt":"2021-08-24T13:58:19","slug":"episode-449-scott-newstok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-449-scott-newstok","title":{"rendered":"Episode 449 – Scott Newstok"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show 449:
\nScott Newstok<\/a><\/p>\n

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“Let’s try to think our way into what we value about learning in our lives, in whatever realm: a craft, a sport, a musical activity. It’s about the complex joys of getting better.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>With How To Think Like Shakespeare: Lessons from a Renaissance Education<\/a> (Princeton University Press), Scott Newstok<\/a> explores the Bard’s schooling, how it contrasts with the No Child Left Behind model of today, and how we’re failing both students and teachers. We get into Scott’s love of Shakespeare and the history of education, why the drive for “assessment” is inimical to real learning, the false oppositions about education today, the value of play & conversation, and how the pandemic may have put the nail in the coffin for distance learning. We also get into his new project on Montaigne, the importance of having a couple of key teachers in one’s youth, the importance of student evaluations, why he’ll opt for Marlowe over Shakespeare if he needs to turn students on to Elizabethan theater, his thoughts on translating Shakespeare into “modern English, the scaleability of a Renaissance education, and more! Give it a listen!<\/a> And go read How To Think Like Shakespeare<\/a>!<\/p>\n

“It’s rewarding to take any writer and speculate on what kinds of models and inspirations and practices they had as children that helped them do what they did.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n