Showing posts with label education. Show all posts
Showing posts with label education. Show all posts
Friday, February 20, 2015

US Catholic Colleges say Homeschoolers do Better

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Interesting developments even in the field of education From Catholic Education Daily : Homeschooled students tend to achieve a hig...
Thursday, January 24, 2013

Quote of the Day: The Necessary is Not to be Confused with the Causal

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A drivers license is something binary: Pass/Fail. Nobody is foolish enough to try to get high scores in it to improve his CV with a "...
Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Education: The Difference Between Learning How to Think and What to Think

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Professor of Law Butler Shaffer at the LewRockwell.com in the following excerpt, eloquently distinguishes between independent and conform...
Friday, March 09, 2012

When College Education Isn’t Sufficient

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Work place education matters more than a college degree, so argues Professor Alex Tabarrok at the Chronicle Review (hat tip Prof Mark Perry...
Monday, October 24, 2011

Higher Education in the Information Age

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How higher education may look like in the future From Mark Weedman (hat tip Professor Arnold Kling) A school in this Google model de...
Friday, June 24, 2011

Central Planning in Education Fails

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Central planning even in education doesn’t work. Take a look at Japan’s PhD’s experience From Nature.com (hat tip: Prof Arnold Kling) [bo...
Friday, June 17, 2011

US Economy: Manufacturing and Technology as Sunshine Industries?

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Perhaps enrollment trends could serve as an indicator or clue on how the US economy (and perhaps the world economy) will take shape. Accor...
Saturday, May 07, 2011

Common Sense Education

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Another treasure from marketing guru Seth Godin ; this time he talks about the basic things we need to learn about: (bold highlights mine) ...
Thursday, August 19, 2010

Cartoon of the Day: Tax on Education

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The following enlightening caricature from Heritage Foundation underscores how taxes impact the cost of education. I just hope that there...
Saturday, July 03, 2010

Wealth Makes Health And Intelligence

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The Economist shows a study associating intelligence with incidences of infectious diseases. The Economist writes , "HUMAN intelligence...