1. One of the goals of the
Paideia Program is to live a
full life; what does this mean?

2. • Education and its relationship to
imagination and happiness

3. What does science have to tell us.
• The human being is the only animal
who____________

4. • The human being is the only animal
who thinks about the future.

5. We use our imagination to
think about the future
• Which means that we may have a mind,
body and spirit but we also have a past
me, a present me and a future me.

6. • The now me is constantly having
conversations with the past me and the
future me and most of these
conversations are wrought with guilt.

7. • Most of the time when we talk to our
past selves we tell her that “Our best
just wasn’t good enough for them”

8. • We don’t treat our future selves nicely
(or correctly). (We have attics and lives
that are full of stuff we consider
indispensable)

9. • To imagine is to experience the world
as it isn’t and has never been, but as it
might be. (Some say, as it should be)
• We can imagine the past, present and
future.

10. • Should education care about
imagination?

11. •Imagination is more
important than
knowledge.
Einstein

12. • How should imagine be
used (or is currently used)
in education?

13. • Later---what a wonderful concept
• It is so wonderful that we self impose
delay
• Why do we create future bad events?

14. • Impact is rewarding
• Mattering makes us happy
• We want the best destination
• We want to control our boat--we all
steer ourselves toward the futures that
we think will make us happy
• Imagination is looked at as unstable
• Beast of the modern imagination

15. Tools for imagination
• Mind Mapping
• Venn Diagram
• Stories

16. • Imagination application
• Increasing----
• Leading
• Producing
• Conducting
• implanting

17. Happiness
• What is happiness?

18. • Happiness is subjective
• Nothing can substitute for an
experience of happiness
• Can’t transfer happiness
• Happiness is happiness

19. Actual
Expected > 1

20. • Should education care about
happiness?

21. • Is happiness a by product or a cause?
• Science cannot bring happiness.

22. • Happiness as a comparative
experience
• Reba & Lois
• Shackleton

23. • We passed through the narrow mouth of the cove with the
ugly rocks and waving kelp close on either side, turned to
the east, and sailed merrily up the bay as the sun broke
through the mists and made the tossing waters sparkle
around us. We were a curious-looking party on that bright
morning, but we were felling happy. We even broke into
song, and, but for our Robinson Crusoe appearance, a
casual observer might have taken us for a picnic party
sailing in a Norwegian fjord or one of the beautiful sounds
of the west coast of New Zealand.

24. • Science can’t measure happiness-it has
to accept fuzziness
• If you want to try and measure
happiness you will have to use big
numbers

25. • All we’ve got is our subjective view of
happiness
• How can we inspire, bring, create,
encourage….happiness in the
classroom?
• How do we influence perceptions?