What we have known for years is that despite an awful lot of complaining that education does not get enough money, there is no evidence that increased funding equates with better learning, or teaching. It is not about the amount of funding one has. It is all about how you spend the money that counts. [...]
Posts under ‘Education’
euthanizing the word "unbiblical"
Tony Jones has been giving a series of posts on euphemisms and words within Christianity that are ridden with assumed values that are more harmful than helpful not only in our discourse, but in our desire to be a community. He also tackles a set of words that have tended to bother me namely, "unbiblical", [...]
it's not indoctrination but the magic is sucking you dry
This hub-bub over the President's address to students irked me this weekend. How stupid are we as a public to lack any form of discernment? It's not indoctrination. Indoctrination is what happens during basic training for the military which is literally called "indoctrination school." A non-coercive presidential address is indoctrination as much as teaching evolution [...]
quote of the day: the meaning of life
The question of how to spend my life, of what my life is for, is a question posed only to me, and I can no more delegate the responsibility for answering it than I can delegate the task of dying. – Anthony T. Kronman in Education's End: Why Our Colleges and Universities Have Given Up [...]
is the brick and mortar college obsolete?
Don Tapscott, author of Growing Up Digital and Grown Up Digital seems to think so. But I think this response hits the nail on the head. While there may be interest in online courses of ’star’ professors, I’m skeptical about how motivated potential students might be without the incentives of grades, deadlines for assigned coursework, [...]
