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Should the children be in charge?
Wired Magazine is usually one of my favorite sources for tech news and innovation. But a recent article about “alternative education” left me very disappointed. First, the article — read it before we talk about it: How a radical new teaching method could unleash a generation of geniuses (Wired) Go ahead. I’ll wait. *gets another cup…
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A MOOC mega-man pulls back on the promise of online education
FastCompany offered a great long-read article a couple weeks ago about Sebastian Thrun, the Standford professor & Google geek who got so famous a few years ago by offering Standford-level coursework like Computer Science, Machine Learning, and Introduction to AI to anyone on the Internet who wanted to take it. The whole article is here…
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Staying Power by Jeanne Murray Walker : Poetry Magazine
Staying Power BY JEANNE MURRAY WALKER In appreciation of Maxim Gorky at the International Convention of Atheists, 1929 Like Gorky, I sometimes follow my doubts outside to the yard and question the sky, longing to have the fight settled, thinking I can’t go on like this, and finally I say all right, it is improbable, all…
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Uh, so I’m pretty much bawling over here.
To Feel Like a Kid Again. ^ That. That post. Nails it. Jack has been a dear friend of ours for quite a while now. I think his post about the death of his father manages to capture the empty feeling that lingers on through your life once a parent is gone. And it’s also…
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Link: How to Raise a Pagan Kid in a Christian Home — I.N.F.O. For Families
How to Raise a Pagan Kid in a Christian Home — I.N.F.O. For Families. To echo the author: we need to stop drinking the dangerous cocktail of the American Dream and Protestant work ethic mixed into the Gospel.
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