Back in the 1840s, the Saints established the University of Nauvoo. Joseph Smith said that it was to “enable us to teach our children wisdom — to instruct them …
The Archives: Education
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My little brother was in the regional spelling bee this morning. Sitting there during the first round, I watched each kid get up to the mike and wait for …
Stumbled across a quote by John Adams that really struck me hard:
“I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My …
To offset today’s other post, here’s something that’s less of a hot potato. :) As I get ready to graduate, I want to keep learning, to broaden my perspective …
The other day I was dabbling around with an attempt to translate Moroni 10:3-5 into Latin, just for fun. This involved scouring the dictionary for words. And …
I miss science. True, linguistics is a science of sorts, but I mean physics and chemistry and biology and math and all that. The hard sciences. Looking …
In response to the discussion on Connor’s blog about homeschooling, I wrote up this response. I recommend reading the other comments in the thread so you have a …
Upon looking at the syllabus for my Introduction to Theatre class an hour ago, and noting with a small degree of horror that we’d have to put on a fullscale …
A couple of weeks ago I came across Meredith Farkas’s post on screencasting, and it’s been on the back burner of my mind ever since, particularly this line: “There …
10. Bon mot
You’d think I would have been all over podcasting as soon as I heard about it, and I’ll admit my interest was piqued at the beginning, but it wasn’t until …
Yesterday I watched Jimmy Wales’ TEDTalk (he’s on August 21, 2006), and my interest was piqued. Now, I’ve used Wikipedia often (who hasn’t? :)), but I hadn’t looked …
Listened to a talk by Sir Ken Robinson on creativity in education. You have to watch this. He certainly has his head on straight. Here’s a …
This morning I read Oliver DeMille’s Seven Reasons to Study the Classics over my toast and scrambled eggs. It’s really, really, really good. In fact, as I …
Read Paul Graham’s How to Do What You Love. Now. :)
From Forbes, this sounds mouthwateringly delicious:
NEW YORK - In an unprecedented move, Stanford University is collaborating with Apple Computer to allow public access a wide range of lectures, speeches, …
