February 2012
6 posts
To College, or Not To College? →
tetw:
What higher education is really about…
***Update: Another article that definitely belongs on this list: College for $99 a Month by Kevin Carey - How online education could be great for students - and catastrophic for universities.***
The University Has No Clothes by Daniel B. Smith - A critical review of the spate of prominent attacks aimed at college education.
Learning by Degress by...
January 2012
20 posts
To College, or Not To College? →
tetw:
What higher education is really about…
The University Has No Clothes by Daniel B. Smith - A critical review of the spate of prominent attacks aimed at college education.
Learning by Degress by Rebecca Mead - A strong argument against measuring the value of a degree in purely economic terms.
In the Basement of the Ivory Tower by Professor X - An anonymous instructor at a low-end college...
“It’s no wonder President Obama wants every kid to go to college …...”
– Rich Santorum, reasonably explaining how higher education is a massive conspiracy against America.
Wired.com: Algorithmic Education (Including the... →
Gizmodo.com: Apple iPad Textbooks 101 →
Watch92y:
Paul Krugman: The Economic Crisis Will Permanently Scar New Graduates
“How long does it you as an individual to recover from the fact that you happen to graduate from college into a bad job market? And the answer is forever. It scars your entire work career. You will never recover from the fact. So the kids that are graduating into the 2011 job market are never going to have the lives they...
kaleidoscope: Antielitism Left and Right →
lareviewofbooks:
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One of the most intriguing and valuable books I’ve read in 2011 was Catherine Liu’s American Idyll: Academic Antielitism as Cultural Critique (University of Iowa Press). We have billionaire antielitists, tenured antielitists,…
HuffPo: Rick Santorum Accuses Obama Of 'Hubris'... →
Forget Ritalin and Cramming: Molecular Pathways in... →
How-To-Learn-Any-Language.Com →
journalofajournalist:
This link is great. It turns out the internet has a whole subculture of competitive foreign language learners… And this bulletin board is just goddamn amazing. Je trouve mon nouveau timesuck.
December 2011
15 posts
“Dubium sapientiae initium.”
– René Descartes (via crookedindifference)
Rutgers v. Princeton, on 'This American Life' →
Last story on the show, at the 39-minute mark, by Chris Gethard.
Lifehacker.com: How to Avoid Getting Screwed... →
“Science does not purvey absolute truth, science is a mechanism. It’s a way of...”
– Isaac Asimov on science, creativity, and education in a rare Bill Moyers interview circa 1988 (via taylorlorenz)
<3 asimov
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How to *Really* Use Google for Research. →
November 2011
16 posts
“The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t...”
– Mark Twain
“Sixty-one percent of paid interns working at for-profit companies received a job...”
– That’s Jean Chatzky, writing in Newsweek, on why students shouldn’t take unpaid internships. (via newsweek)
Our Universities: Why Are They Failing? (New York... →
If You’re Busy, You’re Doing Something Wrong: The... →
Watchiaminlikewithmybike:
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