This document lists desirable qualities and characteristics that educators want children to possess as adults, including being curious, skeptical, open-minded, imaginative, strategic, reflective, truth-seeking, inquisitive, responsible, independent, adventurous, inventive, original, creative, flexible, questioning, risk-taking, mindful, considerate, full of wonder, compassionate, and balanced. It also discusses an adventure race called Primal Quest and how claims of knowledge vary across competing teams. The document emphasizes that teaching is a creative act and each educator's work with students is their own art.

8. What do we want the children we
teach to be like as adults?

9. The Residuals of Education
• Curious
• Sceptical
• Open-minded
• Imaginative
• Strategic
• Metacognitive
• Reflective
• Truth Seekers
• Inquisitive
• Responsible
• Independent
• Listeners
• Adventurous
• Inventive
• Original
• Creative
• Flexible
• Questioning
• Risk-takers
• Mindful
• Considerate
• Full of Wonder
• Compassionate
• Balanced

14. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkPrmZ9Ux8w

19. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzpFrxoXQvA

23. The Race
• 400-600 miles, non-stop Primal Quest
• Adventure Race
• Multi-disciplinary, expert teams
• Unknown terrain, multiple routes
• Challenges: mental and physical
exhaustion, navigational errors, injury
• 75-95 teams each year
• 55% of teams do not finish
• Avg age=37, Avg exp=5.5 yrs
• $250,000 purse

25. How do claims of knowing vary across teams?

42. “Teaching is fundamentally a
creative act. The work we do with
our students is our art, and there is
no one who can tell us how to make
that art.”
Tina Blythe

43. T: @cpaterso
E: cpaterson@shore.nsw.edu.au