The 10 Books Everyone Should Read
What are the 10 books that every well educated person should read? It depends on the definition of ‘well educated’.
Teaching
Advice for New Parents
Advice for New Parents: ‘Read to your children’; how an ER doc became a primary care doc, and began changing the world.
The Bookscrounger Returns
I’m back, the Bookscrounger returns. Where I’ve been, and where we’re going.
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.
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.
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?