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The 10 Books Everyone Should Read

2017.12.13 by Bookscrounger 5 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

Advice for New Parents

2017.07.20 by Bookscrounger 4 Comments
Child Reading, New Parents

Advice for New Parents: ‘Read to your children’; how an ER doc became a primary care doc, and began changing the world.

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

The Bookscrounger Returns

2017.06.05 by Bookscrounger 9 Comments
Monkey Reading a book in a tree.

I’m back, the Bookscrounger returns. Where I’ve been, and where we’re going.

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Posted in: Biology, Books, Education Tagged: Civilizing Evolution, Football Mentality, Small Evolution, Sociobiology, Teaching, Wisdom

Artificial Education vs Natural Education

2016.08.01 by Bookscrounger 1 Comment

Our choices are artificial education vs natural education: either we force the student to learn; or, curiosity is universal, and only needs encouragement.

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Posted in: Education Tagged: Lifelong Learning, Teaching

Reinventing Wheels

2016.07.29 by Bookscrounger Leave a Comment
Reinventing wheels, GeoOrbital

‘No need to reinvent the wheel.’ That was fine for the past. But accelerating progress makes reinventing wheels an absolute imperative.

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Posted in: Education Tagged: Lifelong Learning, Teaching, Wisdom

War on Women, War on Children

2016.07.22 by Bookscrounger 8 Comments

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.

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Posted in: Education, Politics Tagged: Liberal and Conservative, Lifelong Learning, Teaching, Tolerance, Wisdom

Intellectual Abandonment: Leaving Kids Behind

2016.07.11 by Bookscrounger 4 Comments
Intellectual Abandonment

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.

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Posted in: Education Tagged: Hammer Thinking, Intellectual Abuse, Lifelong Learning, Teaching

In Loco Parentis

2016.07.01 by Bookscrounger 1 Comment

Many argue that teachers cannot serve in loco parentis; but that ship has already sailed.

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Posted in: Education, Politics Tagged: Teaching

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

Inferior Workforce Development

2016.06.10 by Bookscrounger 4 Comments

How could workforce development ever produce workers for work that doesn’t yet exist?

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