Comments on: About http://spherecollege.wordpress.com Wed, 19 Sep 2012 00:01:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Kyle http://spherecollege.wordpress.com/about/#comment-331 Tue, 31 May 2011 07:18:54 +0000 #comment-331 Free College looks like a bright educational model to me, especially if you’ve read the wealth of the nations by Adam Smith. Having mass amounts of educated individuals by this model would drive the current technology labor market into the future! I’m a current physics major and I want to be a researcher especially for technology such as neural prosthetics, How much convincing do I have to give this panel to let them know I want to one day give them technology that will allow them to walk again as if they had a new limb?

]]> By: jrichardliston http://spherecollege.wordpress.com/about/#comment-330 Mon, 30 May 2011 22:12:45 +0000 #comment-330 That’s the general idea, but it’s broader than that. We’re dealing with adults who are generally not a good fit for the current model of higher education. The first phase is to give students sufficiently broad experience in multiple areas, and to ensure that they have connected with a passion that will carry them through the challenging tasks of learning that lay ahead. If a student says he or she wants to be a physicist, they need to then convince a panel that this is indeed their passion. Then, with mentorship they will identify the interdisciplinary knowledge they need to accomplish that goal. Chances are they would narrow their goal down considerably more than ‘a physicist’. They will then construct a program of study that—and this is the most important part—fits their learning style, allowing them to go more deeply into the topic. There are many details that don’t fit into comments here, but perhaps that will help explain our model.

]]> By: Kyle http://spherecollege.wordpress.com/about/#comment-329 Mon, 30 May 2011 20:48:04 +0000 #comment-329 I’m still a little confused about this project, the college is building a curriculum around what the student wants to learn. So does that mean if I want to be an engineer or physicist, I can learn that from this college?

]]> By: jrichardliston http://spherecollege.wordpress.com/about/#comment-291 Tue, 22 Mar 2011 17:21:08 +0000 #comment-291 Thanks for the comment, Nathan. And I just checked out your blog. Love the photos. I’ll be checking back to learn more about the plants. Really great.
Richard

]]> By: Nathan Carlos Rupley http://spherecollege.wordpress.com/about/#comment-290 Mon, 21 Mar 2011 23:47:21 +0000 #comment-290 Great project. I live in Lancaster county. Nice to see something like this happening PA.

]]> By: ron thomas http://spherecollege.wordpress.com/about/#comment-237 Mon, 22 Nov 2010 18:41:12 +0000 #comment-237 Richard,
It was a great pleasure to meet you again, this time
with ample time to get a good introduction to your
work with Sphere College. I hope we can follow up our conversation in the near future. Please keep me informed
about the progress of your work,
Very fond regards,
Ron Thomas
ps kindly respond via my own email

]]> By: jrichardliston http://spherecollege.wordpress.com/about/#comment-151 Wed, 28 Apr 2010 19:42:58 +0000 #comment-151 Hi James, it was very nice to meet you. Thank you for your kind words. I was delighted with the response from Pottstown and will be following up. Stay tuned! -Richard

]]> By: james enders http://spherecollege.wordpress.com/about/#comment-144 Sun, 25 Apr 2010 05:25:28 +0000 #comment-144 It was a pleasure to see some new introjectory thought for our community in Pottstown, Pa. Look forward to working with you. Cheers and Good luck.

]]> By: Greg Steele http://spherecollege.wordpress.com/about/#comment-132 Sat, 10 Apr 2010 22:48:29 +0000 #comment-132 Hi Richard,

We spoke today at the Plaza in Phoenixville while I was doing voter registration. Glad I found the site (also facebook – cross posting). I am interested in the school, I’ll continue to gather information from the sites and hope to talk to you again.

- Greg

]]> By: jrichardliston http://spherecollege.wordpress.com/about/#comment-104 Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:07:57 +0000 #comment-104 In fact, Sandy, students, alumni and others connected with Uppatinas may be interested in submitting an entry to the Sphere College Short Film Contest: http://spherecollege.wordpress.com/film-contest/

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