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Category Archives: Education
A bad case of groupthink
Frank Furedi on academia’s response to the referendum result: At the end of the conference, a Dutch colleague who knows that I voted Leave calls me aside and whispers: “I agree with you on Brexit.” When I ask her why … Continue reading
Notebook
[I]t was a long established rule in Cambridge colleges that wives — especially wives — were banned from High Table. High Table was the preserve of the Fellows who cultivated self-importance with the same exquisite care that lesser mortals might … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Notebook, Science, Uncategorized
Tagged Cambridge, High Table, Jane Hawking, Stephen Hawking
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Superficially
Sathnam Sanghera [£] on the Oxbridge tutorial and the art of blagging: Though, of course, the third and most serious problem with the Oxbridge tutorial system is that it does not nurture intelligence as much as teach people how to act … Continue reading
Educating Roger
Times have changed… Roger Scruton, former editor of The Salisbury Review, pays a visit to the Michaela Community School in Wembley. Photo posted on Twitter by the school’s headmistress, Katharine Birbalsingh (alias @Miss_Snuffy).
Posted in Education
Tagged free schools, Katharine Birbalsingh, Michaela Community School, Roger Scruton
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Kanye West: having his cake & eating it
Consumerism is the enemy, sort of. From his speech to students at Oxford earlier this week:
Correcting Wikipedia
Is that noble experiment in “controlled anarchy” in danger of losing its way? David Auerbach recalls his own encounter with people who seem to spend as much time feuding as editing: Because Wikipedia is so unprecedented, I cut it a … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Technology
Tagged Arts & Letters Daily, David Auerbach, Internet governance, Slate, Wikipedia
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Links
H.P. Lovecraft “had a deep-seated abhorrence of blacks, Jews, southern Italians, Portuguese, Poles, Mexicans, French Canadians, and virtually every other race that was not ‘light-skinned Nordic’.” Portrait of a writer in the New York Review of Books. Whatever happened to … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Literature
Tagged Ford Maddox Ford, H.P. Lovecraft, higher education, Jan Morris, racism
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Distractions
You would expect Clay Shirky, prophet of new technology and professor of media studies at NYU, to be relaxed about the idea of students using laptops and other gadgetry in the classroom. He used to be. But he’s had a … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Technology
Tagged Clay Shirky, Facebook, Instagram, Jonathan Haidt, new technology, NYU, Pinterest, Tumblr, Twitter, Weibo
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“Good lecturer, ugly shoes.”
HT: TaxProfBlog via Althouse
