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Consumed - Milk Cartoon

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A Higher Education - Education - redOrbit

like many critics of Enlightenment rationality, Kronman believes that the driving force behind the quest for new knowledge is fundamentally a Faustian urge to exert control over nature and ultimately over death itself-the human desire, as he puts it, "to transform fate into freedom." When this urge commands the imagination without a countervailing awareness of human fallibility and mortality, it becomes a monstrous folly

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defense of the humanities as food for the soul. The heart of the college experience, he believes, should be "a disciplined survey of the answers the great writers and artists of the past have given" to the question of how best to live, in order to "aid...students in their own personal encounter with the question of what living is for."
social value of the new knowledge that academic research has produced-advances in medicine and communications, rational management of economies and legal systems, development of new technologies, and so on. At its best, the research ideal is generously collaborative, entailing a devotion to an enterprise unbounded by time and self, in which each individual scientist or scholar makes a contribution based on the work of predecessors, to be extended by successors.
The humanities should be about helping students "stock their souls with the greatest and most lasting images of human striving and fulfillment, as guides to the choices they must face in the years ahead, and as a fund of perennial inspiration." But, as Kronman points out, the humanities have vitiated themselves by adopting the scientific premise that knowledge is progressive-at best a half-truth
invite them into an "ongoing conversation that gives each entrant a weighted and responsible sense of connection to the past" and thereby helps them face the imponderable future
with every passing year students feel more pressure to impress the professional school admissions committees or corporate hiring committees with a super GPA in some practical subject like economics, at the expense of pursuing learning for its own sake
The ideals of individual freedom and toleration; of democratic government; of respect for the rights of minorities and for human rights generally; a reliance on markets as a mechanism for the organization of economic life and a recognition of the need for markets to be regulated by a supervenient political authority; a reliance, in the political realm, on the methods of bureaucratic administration, with its formal division of functions and legal separation of office from officeholder; an acceptance of the truths of modern science and the ubiquitous employment of its technological products: all these provide, in many parts of the world, the existing foundations of political, social, and economic life, and where they do not, they are viewed as aspirational goals toward which everyone has the strongest moral and material reasons to strive.
I suspect it is the increasing population (mainly outside the Ivies) of "nontraditional" students-adults who have seen life from the vantage point of failure, or who feel unfulfilled after achieving what others deem success-who are asking the better questions. In short, there remains a real constituency for humanistic education-and if we take the broad and long view, it may even be growing.

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David Foster Wallace - Commencement Speech at Kenyon College

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As if a person's most basic
orientation toward the world, and the meaning of his experience were
somehow just hard-wired, like height or shoe-size; or automatically
absorbed from the culture, like language. As if how we construct
meaning were not actually a matter of personal, intentional choice.
value of your
liberal arts education is supposed to be about: how to keep from going
through your comfortable, prosperous, respectable adult life dead,
unconscious, a slave to your head and to your natural default setting
of being uniquely, completely, imperially alone day in and day out.
petty, frustrating crap
like this is exactly where the work of choosing is gonna come in.
Because the traffic jams and crowded aisles and long checkout lines
give me time to think, and if I don't make a conscious decision about
how to think and what to pay attention to, I'm gonna be pissed and
miserable every time I have to shop. Because my natural default
setting is the certainty that situations like this are really all
about me.
If you're automatically sure
that you know what reality is, and you are operating on your default
setting, then you, like me, probably won't consider possibilities that
aren't annoying and miserable. But if you really learn how to pay
attention, then you will know there are other options. It will
actually be within your power to experience a crowded, hot, slow,
consumer-hell type situation as not only meaningful, but sacred, on
fire with the same force that made the stars: love, fellowship, the
mystical oneness of all things deep down.
The
only choice we get is what to worship. And the compelling reason for
maybe choosing some sort of god or spiritual-type thing to worship --
be it JC or Allah, bet it YHWH or the Wiccan Mother Goddess, or the
Four Noble Truths, or some inviolable set of ethical principles -- is
that pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive.
The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness
and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to
sacrifice for them over and over in myriad petty, unsexy ways every
day.

That is real freedom. That is being educated, and understanding how to think.
The alternative is unconsciousness, the default setting, the rat race,
the constant gnawing sense of having had, and lost, some infinite
thing.

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The Way We Live Now - Geek Lessons - NYTimes.com

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really good teaching is about not seeing the world the way that everyone else does. Teaching is about being what people are now prone to call “counterintuitive” but to the teacher means simply being honest.
The good teacher is sometimes willing to be a little ridiculous: he wears red or green socks so a kid will always have an excuse to start a conversation with him; she bumbles with her purse to make her more maladroit kids feel at ease.
The great enemy of knowledge is knowingness. It’s the feeling encouraged by TV and movies and the Internet that you’re on top of things and in charge.
students don’t rebel against eccentric, surprising teachers. They rebel against eccentric, surprising teachers who take themselves too seriously. Students can’t bear being preached at; they can’t bear being addressed as if they were a town meeting.
They also tend to rebel against teachers who jump the tracks. As inspired a grade-school instructor as Ludwig Wittgenstein could be, he was inclined to pull the hair of students who didn’t get their math facts down fast enough. There were moments as a teacher when he seems to have become positively demonic — and then regretted it: at one point he ended up going house to house apologizing to his pupils and their parents for his classroom excesses. Eccentric teachers, for all their gifts, for all their inspiration, can be dangerous.
But a college education is about more than acquiring negotiable skills and knowledge. It’s also about figuring out who you are and what you bring to the world. It’s about understanding that your existing self-conception may leave a lot of things out or may be radically inaccurate. People succeed best when they set themselves to doing what they love, and finding out what you love and beginning to get good at doing it are at the heart of a college education. Good teachers matter because they can surprise you out of your complacency and into new views of yourself and the world. Or — and often this is just as valuable — they can induce you to struggle to affirm intelligently what you’ve previously believed in indolent, unconsidered ways.
“I’m glad you were home,” William tells Lester Bangs after they’ve had their rock heart-to-heart on the telephone. Bangs assures him: “I’m always home. I’m uncool.”

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Study of Standardized Admissions Tests Is Big Draw at College Conference - NYTimes.com

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The Carnegie Commons - Opening up Education

John Seely-Brown gives a great intro. Read online or download pdf: http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11309. Lots of talk about science education as a model in the accompanying forums.

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A Blog Around The Clock : Regressives

unapologetic

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Education | Scenic Hudson

downloadable guides

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in list: the hudson valley

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College Panel Calls for Less Focus on SATs

growing concerns that the frenzy over standardized college admissions tests is misshaping secondary education and feeding a billion-dollar test-prep industry that encourages students to try to game the tests.

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Op-Ed Columnist - The King Is Dead - Roger Cohen

Yes, the death of the old is also the birth of the new. In my end is my beginning. It’s time for the best and the brightest to step forth and rediscover the public sphere.

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Powell's Books - Review-a-Day - Stuff White People Like by Christian Lander, reviewed by The Atlantic Monthly

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Reforming the Requirement-Free Curriculum

Some prominent institutions, such as Columbia University or the University of Chicago, are famous for what they require of all undergraduates. Brown University has for the last 40 years been much loved in some circles, and disdained in others, for what it doesn’t require.

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Generational Myth - ChronicleReview.com - (Siva)

read as f/u: Eszter Hargittai; Gina Walejko; danah boyd; David Buckingham, Susan Herring; Kathryn Montgomery; Mark Bauerlein

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When Siva fixes his RSS feed so all the paragraphs aren't jumbled into one great big blob of pissed-off-at-Google-and-Berkman, I'll happily stick him back in my reader.
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Many use Facebook and MySpace because they are easy and fun, not because they are powerful (which, of course, they are not). And almost none know how to program or even code text with Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). Only a handful come to college with a sense of how the Internet fundamentally differs from the other major media platforms in daily life.
And they all (I mean all) tell me that they prefer the technology of the bound book to the PDF or Web page. What kids, like the rest of us, don't like is the price of books.
visits to public libraries in the United States increased 61 percent from 1994 to 2004
Once we assume that all young people love certain forms of interaction and hate others, we forge policies and design systems and devices that match those presumptions.
Invoking "generations" demands an exclusive focus on people of wealth and means, because they get to express their preferences (for music, clothes, technology, etc.) in ways that are easy to count. It tends to exclude immigrants and non-English-speaking Americans, not to mention those who live beyond the borders of the United States. And it excludes anyone on the margins of mainstream consumer or cultural behavior
Mannheim answered Hume by positing that generations are not dem-ographically determined, but historically. Big events forge common identities. And proximity to an experience matters more than birth year.
kids today are fundamentally different from the rest of us because their default modes of interaction involve mixing and mashing digital files and exposing (and rewriting) themselves through online profiles and avatars. That assumption bolsters the policy positions that the investigators already embraced: that the law should allow young people to remix and share bits of culture, while helping them respect and manage privacy. The policy goals are laudable. And the research is interesting. But Palfrey and Gasser did not need to render young people exotic to make their points. The concept of "born digital" flattens out the needs and experiences of young people into a uniform wish list of policies that conveniently matches the agenda of digital enthusiasts and entrepreneurs of all ages.
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- Yes. And in fact the most intriguing aspects of Born Digital are the authors themselves.
  posted by taryn930 on 2008-09-17
Howe and Strauss go to show you that you'll never go broke in America marketing to marketers

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Digital Natives » Technology and collaboration: can DN manage their own learning activities?

Andre Valle posts on Fridays. His intro: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/digitalnatives/2008/09/05/digital-natives-around-the-world-introduction/

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Tracking The Reasons Many Girls Avoid Science And Math

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WhatIsConnectivism

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Jonathan Drori on what we think we know | Video on TED.com

"children do worse after they're taught"

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DAVID FRUM: Palin's Working Class Appeal - THE WEEK

2 very fine examples of why comments stink

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Obama on Education - Ezra Klein

lot of lame argument, but better toward the end

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chance to fulfill their God-given potential
children here in Dayton are growing up competing with children not only in Detroit, but in Delhi as well.

What matters, then, isn’t what you do or where you live, but what you know
Without a good pre-school education, our children are less likely to keep up with their peers. Without a high school diploma, you’re likely to make about three times less than a college graduate. And without a college degree or industry certification, it’s harder and harder to find a job that can help you support your family and keep up with rising costs.
an education agenda that moves beyond party and ideology and focuses instead on what will make the most difference in a child’s life. My plan calls for giving every child a world-class education from the day they’re born until the day they graduate from college. It’s a plan that starts with investing in early-childhood education because we know that children in these programs are more likely to score higher in reading and math, more likely to graduate high school and attend college, more likely to hold a job and earn more in that job. And it’s a plan that will finally put a college degree within reach for anyone who wants one by providing a $4,000 tax credit to any middle class student who’s willing to serve their community or their country.
We need assessments that can improve achievement by including the kinds of research, scientific investigation, and problem-solving that our children will need to compete in a 21st century knowledge economy.
Service Scholarship program that will recruit top talent into the profession, and place these new teachers in overcrowded districts and struggling rural towns, or hard-to-staff subjects like special education in schools across the nation. To prepare these new teachers, I’ll create more Teacher Residency Programs that will build on a law I recently passed and train 30,000 high-quality teachers a year, especially in math and science. To support our teachers, we’ll expand mentoring programs that pair experienced, successful teachers with new recruits.
when our teachers succeed in making a real difference in our children’s lives, we should reward them for it by finding new ways to increase teacher pay
we can increase the number of students taking college-level courses; expand innovation and school choice; invest in the schools of tomorrow; and put a quality teacher in every classroom – all for the cost of just a few days in Iraq

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