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Category: Concepts in Educationalist Thought Series
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The Weight of Block-Thinking Division between “Religious” and “Secular”
Dear friends, What has happened in the United States is a shift of the weight of the Block-Thinking Division between “Religious” and “Secular”. Let me unpack that phrasing. Block-thinking is the cognition motivated by the collective agenda of an interest group, usually a political advocacy organisation with ‘religious’ or ‘secular’ pretense. In these cases,…
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Romanticism and Charles Taylor
Review Essay: Matthew Hunter, Charles Taylor’s Sublime Shortcomings: The great philosopher’s book about poetry is provocative but disappointing, The Chronicle of Higher Education, MAY 22, 2024. Charles Taylor (2024). Cosmic Connections: Poetry in the Age of Disenchantment, Harvard University Press. At a moment when, as Taylor has…
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Universities and Employability: Why am I not employed (contracted)?
“The [UK] creation of the Office for Students by the 2017 Higher Education and Research Act to ‘encourage competition between English higher education providers’ and to ‘promote value for money’ has been particularly instrumental in promoting a mercantile narrative that has forced universities to close departments and courses that have not been recruiting well.” Zahid Naz, The employability agenda corrupts educational and personal…
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I and My Colleagues have been Saying the Same Thing For Decades as Leading Journalistic Statements: So, Why I NOT Employed or Contracted?
Dear friends, Not understanding the A.I. risks. Tyler Austin Harper (2024). The Big Ai Risk Not Enough People Are Seeing: Beware technology that makes us less human, The Atlantic, MAY 21, 2024, 6 AM ET. GIFT ARTICLE In 1977, Ivan Illich, an Austrian-born philosopher, vagabond priest, and ruthless critic of metastatic bureaucracies, declared that…
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Centrism (now called neopopulism): I said it, now the NYT is reporting it May 19, 2024
Dear Friends, and I thank Graham Perrett’s office for its recent kind support, and several friends who made sure I have not gone under, I said it, now the NYT is reporting it May 19, 2024: Gift Article (I paid for it, the least you can do is read) https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/19/briefing/centrism-washington-neopopulism.html?unlocked_article_code=1.tU0.99mB.4xpAfXEjbZQR&smid=url-share So, I said it back in March with the emerging…
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Not Monetary Arguments, But we do need to retire outdated cynical arguments
Questions regarding the value of a college education have spiked recently, highlighted by high-profile media coverage. Beyond the hype, three substantive attacks have been levied: (1) the college wage premium is illusory, (2) the lifetime wealth premium that college graduates receive is disappearing, and (3) the risk associated with a college investment has increased. Is college really not worth…
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Reading. Why we each need to Revolt Against the Ethos of Our Times?
The first in a series of articles about how today’s traditional-age college students experience the world — and how it affects their education. Theresa MacPhail is a pragmatist. In her 15 years of teaching, as the number of students who complete their reading assignments has steadily declined, she has adapted. She began assigning fewer readings,…
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It is What I Have Been Saying: Tillich
Paul Tillich, in 1944, spoke to the history of Existential Thought (attached below). Incredibly, it is exactly what I have stated in the one paragraph below. It is what I have been saying for the last two years, for those who I have sought attention from, and I have been treated like shit with their…
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It is Not Only Me Saying It: The Now-Open Dirty (corrupt) Secret of National-State and University Governance
https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-gutting-of-the-liberal-arts?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=campaign_9519245_nl_Academe-Today_date_20240409&cid=at&sra=true READ!!!! THINK!!!! ACT!!!! David C.K. Curry, The Gutting of the Liberal Arts, The Chronicle of Higher Education, APRIL 8, 2024 Let me spell this out to the Prime Minister, the Premier, the Government Ministers, and all elected representative officials at the three level of governments, and the manipulative-thinking bureaucrats,…
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2024-04-05 RGSQ Reply to Dr Buch. Understanding Differences and Perspective
2024-04-05 RGSQ Reply to Dr Buch ******* 6 April 2024 Dr Neville Buch 18 Callendar Street Sunnybank Hills Q 4109 [email protected] Dear Dr Buch Thank you for providing feedback on the forum, A Housing Crisis – Queensland Perspectives, organized by our Society and the University of Queensland School of…