Any of these clips is available readily. You can use your search skills to locate them in the case that any of the links fails.
- Pro/con, this/that, East/West. . . in culture, debates, or pet educational theories, we often disagree violently. Part of this skit’s success is in how it depicts play. These supposedly serious thinkers are players here.
- The purposeful use of play in class is a related issue. To what extent will you encourage play? Will it only be allowed, or be an integral part of what you do?
- Seeing these robed thinkers playing soccer, we are reminded of how getting outside of one’s area matters. What do you know or do outside the classroom which matters to how you teach?
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- Philosophers' Football. Authored by: Monty Python's Flying Circus. Provided by: BBC. Located at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxwwEFlHDHY. Project: Practical Foundations and Principles for Teaching. License: CC BY-SA: Attribution-ShareAlike