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Perspectives in Time
I know this seems like a grandiose title, but there is something I wrote a little while ago about the Villians of the piece. The last of the three villians named has died. Ronnie Reagan went first, then Milton Friedmann, … Continue reading
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Society – pursuit of a myth
More random thoughts. Why do we have a society? We clump together to do things for ourselves, to and for each other. We claim it is for mutual protection. What? Are we like schools of sardines on their annual migration … Continue reading
Insanity, thy name is “gun”.
Ah… just another in a long string of anti-firearms blogs. Well, I hope not, but it probably will be. Here are some comments I have heard or read, and my responses: “Guns don’t kill people, people kill people.” How inane … Continue reading
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Looking for eternity in Rome!
Paris and Rome are two of the great cities of the world. (London, Beijing, Dehli, Damascus, Jerusalem, Berlin, Stockholm, Alexandra, Athens, Istanbul, Singapore are, IMNSHO, the others. Tokyo, Saigon, Bangkok, Cairo, Mumbai, Jalalahbad, Kuala Lumpur, Manilla, Zurich are high up … Continue reading
Eating myself thin!
The food in Europe is great. Not really large portions, but of high quality compared to our normal fare. Compared to each others, it varies. Believe it or not, I weighed less when I came home than what I did … Continue reading
Learning the World!
Two weeks, almost, in Europe. Flying around is the only way to do it, but from Oz, it is a long, long flight. Once again, I am struck by how remote we really are in Australia. Not just in distance, either. … Continue reading
Forward in reverse… sdrawkcab gninrael
One of the great failings in the education debate has been that few people have recognised that the social, economic and technical fabric of our society has changed dramatically in the last 30 years. We cannot go backwards, we cannot … Continue reading
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“It’s all good tank country”
What is it that we mean when we talk about public education? I know what I mean, but I wonder sometimes if I am thinking of the same things as others do. I ask this of myself as the idea … Continue reading
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STEM to what? For what?
A lot of modern Edurhetoric is based around the concept of students being successful in the STEM subjects, Science, Technology, English, Maths. Being the horror I was at school, (an “oxygen thief” as I am sure I would be described … Continue reading
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Just what is wrong here?
As I read more, I can see that the issues with education in Australia are pretty much the same issues that others are having elsewhere in the world. Why is that? The more problematic nations seem to be Britain, the … Continue reading
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