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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 progress requires us to pursue critical thinking, and to resist authority.

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

Greater Love: Teachers are Heroes

2016.04.11 by Bookscrounger 2 Comments
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“Greater love hath no man than this…” Teachers are heroes. They dedicate and even give their lives for their students. So why don’t we trust them more?

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Posted in: Education, Knowledge Tagged: Teaching

Sabotaging Children: Living on the Edge

2016.03.28 by Bookscrounger 1 Comment

In the past when we were living on the edge, sabotaging children was the only prudent course of action.

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Posted in: Education, Politics Tagged: Civilizing Evolution, Intellectual Abuse, Kings Conquerors Psychopaths, Liberal and Conservative, Teaching

Paternal Corn: Bad Dad Jokes

2016.03.11 by Bookscrounger 3 Comments

Perhaps there is a good reason that fathers tell bad dad jokes…

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Posted in: Biology, Education Tagged: Civilizing Evolution, Small Evolution, Sociobiology, Teaching

The Best Worst Teacher

2016.03.09 by Bookscrounger 6 Comments

A couple of the best teachers I ever had were not very good teachers.  Let me explain. The first was a high school math teacher that I had for two years.  One of my best friends was in her classes with me, let’s say his name was Picard.  She would hand back our exams and … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Education, Medicine, Politics Tagged: Teaching

Help Wanted: Test Taker

2016.02.12 by Bookscrounger 3 Comments

Our concepts of excellence in education, in intelligence, and in personal performance, are all designed around standardized test, even in the most rigorous curricula. Which is not a very good idea.

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Posted in: Education, Knowledge Tagged: Teaching

Criminal Dehabilitation

2016.01.30 by Bookscrounger 2 Comments
Criminal Dehabilitation

Design your criminal: should incarceration generate criminal rehabilitation, or dehabilitation? What does justice mean if it doesn’t make us safer?

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Posted in: Politics Tagged: Hammer Thinking, Liberal and Conservative, Partisan Politics, Teaching, Tolerance, Wisdom, Workforce Development

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
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