Month: May 2011
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The value of knowledge – the anti-intellectualism problem versus the philosophers’ problem
I need to complain about my fellow philosophers. But maybe I’m confused. Maybe some philosophers out there can set me straight, somehow. In recent years, as my interests have turned away from encyclopedia-building […]
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On Robinson on Education
This very striking video has been circulating, and I’m inspired to reply to it: First, let me say that the video design is very cool. Moreover, Sir Ken Robinson is quite an excellent […]
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Wikipedia’s proposed legal policies
It looks like Wikipedia might be, finally, accepting its legal obligations. Geoff Brigham, General Counsel of the Wikimedia Foundation (which is the legal owner of Wikipedia), has posted to the Foundation-l mailing list a […]
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25 Replies to Maria Bustillos
In a recent essay, in The Awl (“Wikipedia and the Death of the Expert“), Maria Bustillos commits a whole series of fallacies or plain mistakes and, unsurprisingly, comes to some quite wrong conclusions. […]
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Can early education literally create geniuses?
I’m interested in this question, and I am asking in order to be enlightened by you, dear reader. Suppose you had twins, separated at birth, Norman (for “normal”) and Gene (for “genius”). Norman […]
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Ask DadDude: learning a second language
I regularly get questions from people asking advice about their early learning situations. I always tell them that I’m not an expert, just a fellow parent who is highly involved in his boys’ […]