{"id":130722585,"date":"2012-05-14T18:45:12","date_gmt":"2012-05-14T18:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/create-always-learning"},"modified":"2012-05-14T18:45:12","modified_gmt":"2012-05-14T18:45:12","slug":"create-always-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/create-always-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Create &#8211; Always learning&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you haven&#039;t seen this video ([youtube http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RhLlnq5yY7k?wmode=transparent]) watch it. \u00a0It is a minute and a half and I always come away having learned something. \u00a0 <\/p>\n<p \/>\n<div>I love to create. \u00a0I love to take some raw materials, be they paper, or paint or an idea or words, and fashion it into something that no one has seen before. \u00a0I love the idea of seeing a figure in your mind and working with skill and determination until it comes to life.\u00a0<\/div>\n<p \/>\n<div>I believe that each of us has the opportunity to create amazing things. \u00a0A core idea of being a <a href=\"http:\/\/mormon.org\/\">Latter-day Saint<\/a>\u00a0is the idea that we are always learning. \u00a0I was thinking about the exciting opportunities that decentralized education can provide. \u00a0The idea that a farmer in Indiana or India, can get access to the same pool of knowledge as a Stanford student is electrifying. \u00a0But what happens when everyone has a college education? Is this a bad thing? The answer is of course, no. \u00a0There are so many problems in this world. \u00a0We need the creativity and intelligence of everyone to solve them. \u00a0We need everyone to create solutions to problems.\u00a0<\/div>\n<p \/>\n<div>Just imagine if everyone had a great education. Not necessarily a college education, but a great education. \u00a0They knew essential and important truths, and could make and test conclusions. \u00a0Intelligent and creative people would have the tools and ideas nessisary to work together to attack the big, hard, important problems. \u00a0And I think we could solve a fair number of them too. \u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you haven&#8217;t seen this video () watch it. It is a minute and a half and I always come away having learned something. I love to create. I love to take some raw materials, be they paper, or paint or an idea or words, and fashion it into something &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130722585"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130722585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130722585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130722585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130722585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130722585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}