Michael Strong

Interview with entrepreneurs Magatte Wade and Michael Strong — Transcript

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Interview conducted at Rockford University by Stephen Hicks and sponsored by the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship. Hicks: Hi, I’m Stephen Hicks. I am executive director of The Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship here at Rockford University. My two guests today spoke at Rockford University on the themes of entrepreneurship and ethics. With me is […]

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Michael Strong on Socratic teaching

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I like this paragraph from Michael Strong’s The Habit of Thought: “The effort of Socratic Practice is to develop students’ own standard of intellectual judgment by means of placing the onus of responsibility for understanding entirely on them and providing them with the tools and experiences necessary to develop their intellectual judgment. ‘Does it make

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Interview with Michael Strong and Magatte Wade

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Michael Strong and Magatte Ward spoke at Rockford College. Strong is the co-founder (with John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods Market) and Chief Visionary Officer of Conscious Capitalism, Inc. He is also the author of Be the Solution: How Entrepreneurs and Conscious Capitalists Can Solve All the World’s Problems. Wade is a serial entrepreneur raised

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Michael Strong and Magatte Wade to speak at Rockford College

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On Wednesday, November 3, Michael Strong and Magatte Ward will speak at Rockford College. Michael Strong’s talk is titled “Be the Solution: How Entrepreneurs and Conscious Capitalists Can Solve All the World’s Problems.” Strong is the co-founder (with John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods Market) and Chief Visionary Officer of Conscious Capitalism, Inc., a non-profit

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Mathematics education

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Over the semester I have been reading and enjoying Michael Strong’s The Habit of Thought: From Socratic Seminars to Socratic Practice. I was struck today by a quotation Strong draws from Peter Drucker’s Innovation and Entrepreneurship: “We have known, for instance, for several hundred years that mathematics is a problem subject in school. A small

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