Risk-taking and the Future of Education | Benson Hawk | TEDxNewarkAcademy

This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. In this talk, Benson Hawk challenges educators to consider the important role of risk-taking in the pedagogy of the future.

Benson Hawk has taught in the Humanities Department at Newark Academy since 2002. He earned his undergraduate degree in history from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and his law degree from the University of Minnesota. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. at Drew University. The working title of his dissertation is, "the Best Diagnosis that Money Can Buy"—the American Press's Role in Popular Medicine, Self-Diagnosis and Self-Fulfillment in the 1930s.

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