Recently readThe important thing is to have the correct, logical, sensible, rational way of looking at the world. Because, to be honest, facts are cheap now, and they’re getting cheaper by the day. It’s understanding that is at a premium - actually knowing what the hell the facts mean. Any educational system which just hammers facts […]
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JP Rangaswami:
You see, people like Feynman and Einstein had the single-minded focus and energy to get over the social barriers and keep asking the stupid question. But most of us aren’t Feynmans or Einsteins. With social software and particularly with blogs and wikis, we can all ask stupid questions without feeling stupid about doing the […]
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The comments on my post about homeschooling make me glad I brought comments back all those months ago. Peter Cuthbertson and Alice Bachini-Smith going ten rounds is something I could only have hoped for back then…
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I’ve never met a home schooled kid who was not independent, wise beyond their years and an academic achiever.
When we have kids, we’ll probably homeschool (if our schedules allow, which we will break our necks to ensure they do. If we can’t manage it for some reason, we’ll send them to the Lycée where Antoine […]
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I was all excited about the Open University course I’m taking (a nutrition course), but then found out (from one of my favourite beauty blog commenters) that the Open University’s teachings about nutrition are all based on the food pyramid. Like my commenter/correspondent, I think the food pyramid is pretty flawed, so am disappointed that […]
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Yale School of Management seems to have found its thinking cap:
Effective leaders need to be able to own and frame problems and take real responsibility for solving those problems, and then work across organizational boundaries in order to solve those problems. The curriculum in the past was broken down by these disciplinary silos and because […]
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When I was in San Francisco last month, one of the best things that happened to me was meeting BrainJams’ Kristie Wells and Chris Heuer. These are fiercely intelligent, open, unpretentious, generous people who are doing incredible things through the power of their own personal networks.
One such example of this is the Rent an […]
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Since California is where Antoine and I may well end up living someday soon, I care more than usual about this bit of political idiocy. Please, if you live in California, vote against this “Gosh, how could anyone with a heart fail to support it?” measure.
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I know I heap praise on the guys at Techdirt all the time, but they really deserve it. It’s wonderful to know that their good sense and liberty-conscious approach to technology is being so widely disseminated. On the proposed Congressional ban on social networking for kids, Mike writes:
Of course, this is all to “protect the […]
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I don’t get truly angry very often. Well, okay, that’s a lie, but I’ll say this: the only times I get angry these days is when I read about some stupid politicians trying to infringe ever more on individual liberties, or when I hear or read someone advocating that infringement. (Which explains why people who […]
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Last night, we had Brian Micklethwait and Patrick Crozier around for supper. During the meal, Antoine mentioned something about how, in schools where teachers are given performance-related incentives, cheating is much more rife. After all, it’s not in those teachers’ interests to police such things very stringently. Then, after dinner, Patrick said that the ultimate […]
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My friend (and beauty blog co-editor) Hillary Johnson is working a new gig right now, helping a hardware start-up manage its considerable IP. What’s that mean?
My job, right now, is to attempt to build up a methodology that can support an inventor’s native processes, to get the inventor’s creative output to stream into the […]
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Last night, I was out with some male friends, and as Antoine wasn’t with us, I thought it would be a good time for me to get nosy and ask them about their experiences of romantic relationships, what drives them crazy about women, etc. Call it research.
All I can say is, after the conversations […]
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How on earth can a school administrator possibly justify this kind of propaganda shovelling into young mouths?
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