So, recently I watched a few episodes of Harvard’s “Justice” series on PBS. This is a series made from the lectures of a philosophy class taught at the aforementioned crimson university by Michael Sandel. It’s evidently quite a popular class, judging from the giant room, packed to the rafters. It’s also the subject of a [...]
Posts Tagged ‘education’
Community of Trust
Posted in Posts, tagged education, uva on April 12, 2010 | Comments Off
Kids who Move Around a Lot
Posted in Posts, tagged education on April 30, 2009 | Comments Off
Like me! Might they benefit from national curriculum standards? I say, YES! Maybe, that way, I would have actually learned some things that happened in the United States between approximately 1791 and 1880. As it happened, I moved house from one town to another (within the same state, mind you) in 8th grade, and thus [...]
Dept of Catching Up: relativism
Posted in Posts, tagged constitution, education, jefferson on July 19, 2008 | Comments Off
Interesting post. The reaction I always have to this argument about Jefferson is this: I don’t really disagree. He was unable to live up to his own ideals for basically selfish reasons. He did some bad stuff and made some pretty big honkin’ mistakes. But I want to extend things just a bit further: that [...]
I was always the new kid (17 schools) and, in elementary schools, always the kid getting beaned in the head during dodgeball (among other forms of remorseless bullying). I still won’t participate in sports that involve balls flying through the air. (It’s ice-skating and horseback riding for me!) When a former coworker started telling breast [...]
Can Johnny read?
Posted in Posts, tagged education, tech, whippersnappers on November 26, 2007 | Comments Off
Yes, a lot of folks stare at a computer all day, but school-age children still do most of their reading from books. (I went to 15 different public schools and all of them required almost all of my reading to take the form of book reading. At least 60% of my college reading was from [...]
Party on, Wayne! Party on, Garth!
Posted in Posts, tagged education, memory lane, wvu on October 31, 2007 | Comments Off
West Virginia University’s listed by the Princeton Review as the #1 party school. Zoikes! Nothing much else to do in M’town, though, I guess. (I say that with love. LOVE.) The WaPo had an amazingly annoying article about it, written by some annoying girl in an annoying style. No, I am not linking to it. In [...]
The U
Posted in Posts, tagged charlottesville, education, memory lane, tourism, uva on August 22, 2006 | 1 Comment »
So, on Saturday I was on the information tour at the U with my sister (a senior! ack!) and her boyfriend, with my other sister (a freshman) along for the ride. The Lawn was all set up for Convocation, Greeters were everywhere moving the first-years in. It was wonderful. It reminded me of how happy [...]
Who Cares!?
Posted in Posts, tagged blogs, education, feminism on February 23, 2006 | Comments Off
Who cares? I ask you! Why does everyone in the universe (well, the universe of blogs I read) care so much about Larry Summers. Harvard, after all, is not the center of the universe. (Everyone who’s anyone knows that’s Princeton, but it’s hard to explain.) Sheesh. Even the NewsHour lastnight had a whole segment about [...]
Student-athletes
Posted in Posts, tagged education, sports, whippersnappers on December 6, 2005 | Comments Off
TAPPED: December 2005 Archives: “LET’S TALK FOOTBALL. Congressman Joe Barton was right to call for hearings on college football’s Bowl Championship Series, says Matthew Yglesias. It’s about time lawmakers and the public at large start thinking seriously about paying these athletes. –The Editors” I can’t even read this article. It seems to me that the [...]
Leon is everywhere
Posted in Posts, tagged education, quotes, rants, red hook on October 17, 2005 | Comments Off
Matthew Yglesias: A Cop-Out What strikes me here is the fact that Ms. Senior made the unfortunate choice of quoting Leon Botstein. Why, I wonder, is he so CONSTANTLY quoted in magazines? It’s weird. Maybe I would just for once like to see him explain, in one of these many quotations, why someone would actually [...]
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