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| Photo: Jacob Barnett, You Tube |
Forgetting what we know is essential to learning by, thinking and creating.
Educators and Parents: For a few minutes today, forget everything you know. Stop learning & just watch, think & create with this amazing young man!
Jacob Barnett is an American mathematician and child prodigy. At 8 years old, Jacob began sneaking into the back of college lectures at IUPUI. After being diagnosed with autism at the age of two and placed in his school’s special ed. program, Jacob’s teachers and doctors were astonished to find that he was able to teach calculus to college students.
Jacob is also CEO and founder of Wheel LLC, a business he started in his mom’s garage, and is in the process of writing a book to help end “math phobia” in his generation.
Jacob’s favorite pastime is playing basketball with the kids at his charity, Jacob’s Place. It is a place where kids with autism are inspired every day to be their true authentic selves…just like Jacob.
In the TEDxTeens video below, Jacob urges us to: "Stop Learning & Start thinking & Creating"I think the bigger lesson to be learned for parents & educators is this: when that "difficult" or "non-compliant" student is not communicating or jumping through our educational/social hoops, they just might be thinking and creating beyond our perception.
I am so inspired right now to forget everything I know (and start thinking & creating...)
Jacob Barnett TEDxTeen talk
Contact: barbara@bodylogique.com
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