Category: Education
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Learn how to think.
An article in BBC concerning the teaching of philosophy in French schools. The author honestly speaking his heart out: "If you learn about what Kant or Spinoza once said, it is not so much to understand their argument as to use their argument". [1] Wow. Not THIS is what I call teaching at its best!…
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Being advanced... Being stupid...
Modern children have all the technology at the tip of their fingers. They have instant access to vast amounts of knowledge. [1] But they must give it up before it is too late. Because that thing to what they have access is not "knowledge". It is data. Knowledge is earned. Not read. If you do…
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Mind washing on small children: The new hope...
You will be shocked at how much your child's education is directed... Take Japan for example. A country the citizens of which cannot quite understand why their neighbours hate them. A country which still wants nuclear energy, despite the fact that it is the only country which was hit by a nuclear bomb. The solution…
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New York Times, Internet, medium...
Staffers at the New York Times briefly walked out Monday afternoon in protest of the management's position on contract negotiations. [1] Among others, the newspaper's owners call for separate contracts for print and digital employees... Yes, we live in the era of "appearances"... Internet appears less... (what?) ... so editors for the Internet edition of the…
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