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1. The Importance Of Education "We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish." - F. A. Hayek The supposed purpose of education, as marketed by the education industry, is career advancement, higher pay, and empowering a college gra...
2. Bureaucrat Tipping - a push for change Bureaucrat tipping is a creative and natural enterprise involving the joy of doing it better yourself. Power corrupts, but bureaucrats are proof that even a little power corrupts absolutely - few of them can tell differences in degrees of power. Bur...
3. Bastiat Free University: self-crafted, self-directed learning Assassin! You are attacked by your fencing instructor. He has regularly beat you due to his greater reach, but you have excelled in the defensive maneuvers he has taught you. With a gasp, you realize he means to kill you, and he has the means with hi...
4. Renaissance Education - how to study and apply classical literature Educational endeavors, as all social activities, move from extreme to extreme like a pendulum. At the start of the renaissance there was need to redevelop appreciation of science and math after the excesses of allegorical thought within the precedin...
5. We Are Ignorant - we only pretend to know We view sophisticated modern knowledge and proclaim the ignorance of centuries past. What we ignore is that within a decade the sophisticated will view our ignorance with disdain. In a century the average person will be able to enumerate our errors....
6. Autodidacticism or Autodidactism for the Automath An enduring American legend is highlighted in this picture of Abraham Lincoln studying by the light of his fireplace. All of the fancy descriptions aside, autodidactism is studying and learning according to your own lesson plan. You may have just l...
7. Squidoo To-Do Lists I am by nature a list-maker. I make lists of everything! As I started learning about Squidoo and making lenses, I started making lists. Return often. As I learn and grow in Squidoo land, I am sure my lists will change also. Join me on this fantastic...
8. Alternative Learning Systems & Experimental Education Public schools perform much worse at edifying students than private or home schools. They are the wrong environment to facilitate learning. The excuse is public schools help students learn social skills - like how to follow orders. Primary and secon...
9. "An eccentric old fellow training visionaries." - a lensography Whenever I agree with the majority view, I know it's time to examine my foundations. It's not that the crowd is always wrong; they are only always wrong when it is really important. At dangerous extremes visionaries must swim against an almost unani...
10. Use College Donations (and more) To Shape a Better Future. You see the need, you know change must come if colleges are to be prepared for the future. If you have enough concern to give, you have enough concern to influence others. Talk to the person in charge of a program you want to help transform; odds ar...
11. Educational Innovation and Disruptive Technology Educational innovation can expand the role of schooling in an incremental and non threatening manner. Innovation as disruptive technologies not only challenges existing learning systems, they will at some point replace them. Most educational innovat...