seregine | Shared With: Everyone - 8 days ago | people, education, afghanistan, politics
This is exactly the right thing to do.
Quoted: Greg Mortenson has spent less than one-ten-thousandth as much as the Bush administration to help fight terrorism in Pakistan. Instead of blowing things up, he builds schools.
- seregine | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 23 2008 | people, business, culture, education
I wonder if this essay isn't a decade late. Seems obvious, no?
Quoted: Our best universities have forgotten that the reason they exist is to make minds, not careers
- seregine | Shared With: Everyone - May 06 2008 | education, people, society, politics
Schools are evil, here's why.
Quoted: Teaching means many different things, but six lessons are common to schoolteaching from Harlem to Hollywood. You pay for these lessons in more ways than you can imagine, so you might as well know what they are
- seregine | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 02 2007 | education, textbooks
"in case you're interested in educational design or figuring why those textbooks in high school suck"
Mike dotted this in 2006, and I still find myself referring to this article.
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