education
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Human “Enhancement” vs Environmental Reformation
When Dr. Michael Anderson hears about his low-income patients struggling in elementary school, he usually gives them a taste of some powerful medicine: Adderall. The pills boost focus and impulse control in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Although A.D.H.D… Continue reading
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The Trials of Teaching in Texas
Since the [Texas State] Legislature eliminated more than $5 billion in financing from public education in 2011, some early results are easily quantifiable — like the approximately 25,000 employees shed from the state’s schools and the more than 6,200 additional elementary school… Continue reading
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Killing the Liberal Arts… A Non-Conservation
The importance of the humanities in educating citizens is why we have undoubtedly seen the consequences of the decline in of the liberal arts nowhere more than in the quality of the public debate. The disappearance of the liberal arts… Continue reading
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Carl Elliott – How to be an Academic Failure: A Guide for Beginners
How to be an academic failure? Let me count the ways. You can become a disgruntled graduate student. You can become a burned-out administrator, perhaps an associate dean. You can become an aging, solitary hermit, isolated in your own department,… Continue reading
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Kentucky’s GOP lawmakers question standards for teaching evolution in schools – KansasCity.com
One wonders when it will ever end. “I think we are very committed to being able to take Kentucky students and put them on a report card beside students across the nation,” Givens said. “We’re simply saying to the ACT… Continue reading
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Luciano Floridi visiting Denton
I am very pleased that CSID has brought over this very interesting thinker, Luciano Floridi: http://www.philosophyofinformation.net/Introduction.html He will be giving a couple of public lectures while here and also addressing a few classes. Here is a link for the two… Continue reading
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4 Kinds of Sophists and the Hope of Philosophizing
Philosophy is a way of life. It is not a trade nor is it a profession. The closest term would be vocation, a calling to live a certain way via profound commitment to an open (free) discovery of the world.… Continue reading
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