It’s important to understand that the success of an entrepreneur is not measured by how much education he or she has or how many years of experience are under his or her belt. An entrepreneur’s success is measured by achievements, not words on a resume.
More and more people are finding they can earn their degree [...]
During my senior year at college, my friends provoked each other, half in earnest, half mocking, with the question: “So, what are you going to do for the rest of your life?” The question’s immensity made us laugh uncomfortably at our cloudy career paths. Now 33 years later, I realize that I missed the point [...]
The only thing I know about Rudy Manikan, and the only reference to him that I can find on the Internet, is that he was the guy (and I’m only guessing he was a guy) who said this:
If you educate a man you educate a person, but if you educate a woman, you educate a [...]
I agree with this man, rather than this one. I’ve never taught writing, and if I did I might totally change my mind, but saying that grammar isn’t an important part of teaching writing sounds to me like saying that the individual sounds of letters aren’t important in teaching reading. And we all either do [...]
My thanks to Michael Jennings for emailing me the link to this speech to some high school kids (which he never actually gave) by Paul Graham.
I like, in particular, how the speech ends:
… you don’t have to wait to start. In fact, you don’t have to wait to be an adult. There’s no switch inside [...]
Oxford University is allowed to charge the full wack for foreigners, but is forbidden to charge what it likes to locals and the government won’t make up enough of the difference. So, it wants more foreigners and fewer locals:
Oxford University, under-funded by the Government by £95 million a year, is to cut the number of [...]
On Jan 21st – last Friday in other words – David Carr did a posting about the electronic tagging of schoolchildren. He produced this quote …
A school in Swansea is considering tagging its pupils because of a shortage of assistants who can supervise lunch breaks.
The idea is for children at Lonlas Primary to wear the [...]
Today they announced that The Aviator has been nominated for eleven Oscars.
For some time now I’ve been meaning to do another of those celebrity educations postings, and today I got to wondering what kind of education Howard Hughes had?
HowardHughes.jpgI found an answer, albeit a brief one, here:
Education: Hughes attended private school in Boston, where he [...]
Tonight and tomorrow I want to attempt (although I promise nothing) some slightly more substantial blog writing, maybe for here, maybe for elsewhere. So I just want to fling up something here to enable me to forget here for the day.
And the education news story from recent days that I have found most interesting just [...]
I’ve had another busy day today, but I did manage to find this depressing news from Germany:
… A German school official has ordered seven families homeschooling their children in Northwest Germany to enroll their children in public schools immediately, or the children will be forcibly removed by police and taken to school. Any resistance on [...]
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