I’m not saying this is the whole truth–there are many serious difficulties facing educators–but I sense a mostly unspoken chain of reasoning that goes like this: The problem with higher education is K-12 education. The problem with K-12 education is parenting. The problem with parenting is popular culture, and the problem with popular culture is . . . → Read More: The education problem
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In connection with a talk I’m giving later this week, I’ve posted a selection of one hundred Big Questions. These were extracted from a list of 1,000 that I collected by scanning on-line course catalogs. The world since the Industrial Revolution is like a student who has been in college for 225 years and has yet to declare a major. Watching American Idol tonight (I know, I know) it was hard not to feel for some of these kids who are just crushed by the rejection. I mean, they are just personally destroyed. The sociopath in me was amused by their wracking sobs. Just that day, while cleaning up the hard drive, I had rediscovered . . . → Read More: The journey Come see me speak March 25-27 at the 2011 Northwest Regional Freethought Conference in Portland! I’ll be presenting twice: a keynote entitled “Living Without a Soul, Dying Without a God,” and then a dual-interview + audience Q&A with the inimitable P.Z. Myers, of Pharyngula fame. |
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