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preliminary thoughts on wellhausen
[This post is over four thousand words long, hasn't been proofread, and contains all sorts of odd rabbit trails. It doesn't even address the Wellhausen hypothesis until the last two paragraphs. You probably shouldn't read this thing unless you've got some time on your hands] ‘Depending on your opinion, Wellhausen could be either the most [...]
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salman khan — unknowingly subversive
Salman Khan may realize that he is perhaps the greatest help to American education, no, to world education, to come along yet in this young millennium. But what he does not yet realize, or else keeps quiet, is that he may be the worst possible thing for the American school system and government-run systems like [...]
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ken robinson on education
Ken Robinson gives a nice little talk on education. I would call him Sir Ken Robinson, as he’s called in Britain, but I think it’s prohibited somewhere in the Constitution. Related Posts:Hard Words on Education from Fred ReedTen Things to ReadWhat Gary North Didn’t Tell You about Inflationdidache tuesdaypreliminary thoughts on wellhausen
‘The Underground History of American Education’, John Taylor Gatto
I have finally finished through reading The Underground History of American Education, by John Taylor Gatto. Being thrifty (not by nature but I’m learning), I read it online, piecemeal. It’s an odd book, extremely personal, at times conspiratorial-sounding, at times going off in odd philosophical directions. Gatto is patient. Rather than giving an simple outline, [...]
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“academic freedom” and other such stuff
There’s been an argument over whether the government should be able to regulate academic fraud among grant recipients. The university position, of course, is that the government has no right to interfere with “academic freedom.” And yet you don’t see that university turning down government grants. So the implication, then, Related Posts:Hard Words on Education [...]
an economic perspective on amy bishop
Full disclosure: I’m a beneficiary of the public school system, and doing quite well under it. I think being a professor one day would be marvelous, and, God willing, the day may come when I’m thankful for the tenure system. But today I’m going to try to look at it from a colder economic perspective. [...]
Hard Words on Education from Fred Reed