Artificial Education vs Natural Education
Our choices are artificial education vs natural education: either we force the student to learn; or, curiosity is universal, and only needs encouragement.
Education
Human Growth & Learning
Reinventing Wheels
‘No need to reinvent the wheel.’ That was fine for the past. But accelerating progress makes reinventing wheels an absolute imperative.
War on Women, War on Children
The hard right has been waging a War on Women, and their freedoms. It appears they are also waging a War on Children, and their intellectual freedoms.
Intellectual Abandonment: Leaving Kids Behind
No Child Left Behind.
Every Student Succeeds.
Superficial changes to education will never resolve the central problem: intellectual abandonment is designed into the deepest fabric of our schools.
In Loco Parentis
Many argue that teachers cannot serve in loco parentis; but that ship has already sailed.
Zero Tolerance for Education
Zero tolerance for rule-breaking, is zero tolerance for challenging the status quo.
Which is inseparable from intolerance for learning altogether.
Education Isn’t
What should we make of an industry that can’t tell us what they’re doing?
Educational Darwinism, Educational Eugenics
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?
Inferior Workforce Development
How could workforce development ever produce workers for work that doesn’t yet exist?
Bernie Sanders for Superpresident
Bernie Sanders has always been an independent, a bit outside the system. What might he accomplish if he were entirely outside it?