I am perplexed by the way education as a social service has so completely been overwhelmed and then accepting of the corporate …
Category: Education
After 32 years in the classroom, though now retired, I still have some thoughts on the subject.
Rational History Part Two
I hope students think more than ‘historically in a rational way’ as explained in Part 1 of this topic of Rational History. …
This is still true…the Economics of Grades
I came across this little piece today on my hard drive. I have meant to work on it for some time. I think I …
Thoughts on education today: Potential
‘Potential’ … Love and hate that word. Human potential is the great hope of mankind. And yet, who knows what a student’s …
Rational History? Part One
Part One Looking up ‘thinking historically’ there seems to generally be a semantic argument of terms and sequence of the inquiry into …
Education for a new world
The world of education isn’t changing to the Harvard business model of corporatism in education management that is apparently now firmly entrenched …
Truth and Certainty in 1974
I graduated High School in 1974 with some vague notion of what to expect in life, some 37 years later … this …
High stakes multiple choice testing: PISA, expectations and youth
A few years ago I was asked to answer questions regarding the success Alberta students have in these international PISA tests. I …
Industrial Age economics and education Part four
Much of the Western world since the late 1970’s, now quickly being followed by the remainder of the world, has been committed …
Industrial Age economics and education… Part Three
Liberal humanism is seemingly in decline as children, through year after year of increasingly instrumental, procedurally rigorous and formalized education towards some …