Category: education
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Being academic
SEE MORE: Being academicIn the introduction of my book1, I wrote: “to be academic is to be conscious of what you know and how you know it to be so.” A few people have picked up on this and asked me to elaborate. Being conscious of what you know is to be self-aware. This encourages self-reflection and, crucially,…
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Imagine If…
SEE MORE: Imagine If…Imagine if there was a poetically succinct, jargon free, optimistic and inspiring manifesto, which offered up solutions to not only the primary flaws in most mainstream education systems, but also the greatest challenges humanity faces. Such a wondrous text has been published. Imagine If… creating a future for us all is a summary of the…
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Bertrand Russell on University Education
SEE MORE: Bertrand Russell on University EducationNearly 100 years ago, Bertrand Russell wrote: “The idle rich who at present infest the older universities very often derive no benefit from them, but merely contract habits of dissipation”. (p301)1 We might wonder how much has changed with the passing of a century. The line is one of many gems from Russell’s book Education…