Tag: Education

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| September 20, 2013

on redshirting

Maria Konnikova writes about the practice of “redshirting,” that is, starting kids’ schooling at a later...

| August 28, 2013

on the history of lectures

This is going to be an off-on-a-tangent post, but anyway…. I was reading this typically smart post by Ian Bogost...

| August 27, 2013

on all-campus books

Ashley Thorne in the Guardian: One summer when I was an undergrad, my college assigned The Pilgrim’s Progress to...

| August 12, 2011

Against Relevance

And then just as I’m complaining about the invocation of the great god Relevance, here comes Mark Bauerlein to...

| June 2, 2011

commencements

Interesting to see both Jonathan Franzen and David Brooks speaking to and about college graduates in ways that suggest...

| October 6, 2010

learning Greek

Sure, people think it’s a good idea to learn Greek. But of course they would when you put the question that way....

| September 20, 2010

technology and homeschooling

I tend to get frustrated by Kevin Kelly’s technophilia, but this account of his experiences teaching his son at home...