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The 10 Books Everyone Should Read

2017.12.13 by Bookscrounger 4 Comments

What are the 10 books that every well educated person should read? It depends on the definition of ‘well educated’.

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Posted in: Books, Education, Knowledge Tagged: Intellectual Abuse, Lifelong Learning, Teaching, Wisdom

New Parents

2017.07.20 by Bookscrounger 4 Comments
Child Reading, New Parents

How an ER doctor became a primary care doctor, and developed a talk for new parents.

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Posted in: Education, Medicine Tagged: Intellectual Abuse, Medicine, Teaching, Tolerance, Wisdom

Educational Darwinism, Educational Eugenics

2016.06.17 by Bookscrounger 2 Comments

When a major researchers suggests that teachers and schools contribute very little to education, and that genetics is the major factor, what are we to make of such information?

Are we simply going to throw some children away?

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Posted in: Education Tagged: Intellectual Abuse, Teaching, Workforce Development

Busted Paradigms: Why Education Doesn’t Work

2016.05.16 by Bookscrounger 3 Comments

There is growing evidence that our brightest students don’t remember the most basic things they have studied, and that they are disconnected from the most general current events. When these ideas emerge, many people complain that schools, students, and parents aren’t doing their jobs.

What if they are doing their jobs?

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Posted in: Education, Knowledge Tagged: Intellectual Abuse, Teaching, Workforce Development

Critical Thinking as a Teachable Skill

2016.05.04 by Bookscrounger 4 Comments

The world is changing rapidly – politically, socially, technologically – and we have repeatedly considered here how we are ill-equipped to deal with it.  One of the major problems blocking progress is one of authority vs critical thinking. All of us, professionals included, often defer to authority without critically thinking about the complexities of a … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Education, Knowledge Tagged: Hammer Thinking, Intellectual Abuse, Teaching, Tolerance, Wisdom

Scientific Fundamentalism

2016.04.27 by Bookscrounger 7 Comments

It is interesting that scientists rail against Christian fundamentalists, because so many scientists are equally fundamentalist about their own disciplines. Let us begin with examples, data; let us use science against the scientist. I have previously mentioned Bernard Barber’s paper, ‘Resistance by Scientists to Scientific Discovery‘, and Thomas Kuhn’s slender but essential – and largely … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Knowledge Tagged: Constitutional Fundamentalism, Intellectual Abuse, Wisdom

Education vs Training

2016.04.25 by Bookscrounger 2 Comments

Workforce development is a big buzzword in education. We should, business and government leaders insist, invest education dollars in training workers for the marketplace, so that they may grow our economy, our nation, and our way of life. Oh, and also grow their pocketbooks.  It’s no coincidence that many proponents of workforce development are executives. … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Education, Politics Tagged: Intellectual Abuse, Teaching, Workforce Development

Sabotaging Children

2016.03.28 by Bookscrounger 1 Comment

We have been looking at how our educational paradigms are outmoded, and how they keep our children far below their potential.  The fact is, education is designed to hamstring our children.  People in the past simply could not afford to fully educate children. We have been covering the groundwork for this discussion over some time. … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Education, Politics Tagged: Intellectual Abuse, Liberal and Conservative, Teaching

Educational Abuse

2016.01.29 by Bookscrounger 10 Comments

Every child starts with a natural curiosity, but educational abuse destroys it. What if we re-designed education to preserve that curiosity above all else?

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Posted in: Education, Knowledge Tagged: Intellectual Abuse, Lifelong Learning, Teaching

Non-Learners

2016.01.21 by Bookscrounger 4 Comments

Some kids just don’t want to learn.” I was talking with an education bureaucrat a few years ago, discussing the problems in education and how we might approach them differently, when this comment popped out of her mouth. A few days later I was talking to a young man, maybe 12, who was struggling in … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Biology, Education Tagged: Intellectual Abuse, Teaching
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