Concepts in Educationalist Thought Series

Letter to the Queensland Government and Heritage Council

Letter to the Queensland Government and Heritage Council

Hi Birdie, and representatives in the Queensland Government and the Heritage Council,   I am gobsmacked too. I am here in this reply to formally put a public complaint and accusation to the Queensland Government of 'playing' cognitive games in its bureaucracy....

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ANZACmania, Australia, and America

ANZACmania, Australia, and America

  “...What we find today is the complete absence of the kind of concern with Americanization which one found in the United States in the 1880 to 1922 period. And this is a real problem. Possibly only in Australia, among the countries with mass immigration, does...

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Stupidity of the Market Economy in Higher Education

Stupidity of the Market Economy in Higher Education

“Still, universities continue to churn out a supply of PhDs far exceeding the academic market’s demand for them. About 70 percent of all professors are not in tenure-track positions. Only 27 percent of those who received history PhDs in 2017 were in tenure-track jobs...

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Dr Neville Buch’s Philosophy and History

Dr Neville Buch’s Philosophy and History

Dr Neville Buch’s Philosophy and History Article: Downloadable PDF Version   In the early morning, before dawn broke, I dreamed of how to explain my philosophy and history (historiography).       It came as my mind recovered from the slightly-over...

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Understanding ‘Machine Learning’ from the Multi-Disciplinary Knowledge: What is Learning?

Machine Learning is not Learning: The Human Choice in A.I.

Machine Learning is not Learning. Image Source: Marktoonist (Tom Fish Burne). Licenced No. 27175, 28 March 2023, US$100 Do not laugh. Imagine a society where there is no desire to learn beyond egoism and all work is reduced to the push of a button or a key without...

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