A special program featuring some of the best interviews of the past year on To the Best of Our Knowledge. Roller-blades, the cha-cha, and word games don't seem to have much in common, but one day Esmé Codell rolled into a classroom and left herself and her students much smarter at the end of the year. In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge, from kids in Chicago to Iris Murdoch's last days. And a chance to pledge support for public radio. Each of these interviews was heard in longer form in an earlier program.
What makes a great teacher? Esmé Codell tells Jim Fleming about the year she taught fifth grade in Chicago. She wore roller skates in the classroom, showed her students how to make sushi, helped them build a time machine, taught math by dancing the cha-cha, AND raised everyone's test scores.SEGMENT 2:
What makes a genius? The question fascinated writer Michael Gelb. So he set out to learn everything he could about one of history's great geniuses, Leonardo da Vinci, and lays out his discoveries in The How to Think like Leonardo da Vinci Workbook. Gelb tells Judith Strasser that creativity, and happiness, often emerge from powerful sensations.SEGMENT 3:
Novelist and philosopher Iris Murdoch died of Alzheimer's Disease in February 1999. Her husband John Bayley wrote a memoir in tribute to his brilliant wife and their life together. Elegy for Iris became an immediate bestseller. Now Bayley's written a sequel, Iris and Her Friends, and tells Steve Paulson about the last year of her life.Cassette copies of the original programs are available at 1-800-747-7444.
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