Context is all important in asking any question? And these days a key question is the importance of history. Pragmatic agendas of the daily grind obscure how significance the study of the past is for getting a perspective on how to live a better life. This blog looks at how different present contexts are better understood from what preceded.
From John Wagner's List on LinkedIn. Corporate culture that needs to get canceled in 2025: * Micromanagement * Mandatory Return To Office * Glorifying Overworking * Expecting staff to be available 24/7 * Meetings that could have been an...
On Linked-In: Dear Hiring Managers, I would like to express my feelings regarding a recent interview experience that I found quite disappointing. I applied for a position about a month ago, and the job posting is still active. The marketing...
https://www.facebook.com/events/601373408905942/ The Enormity of Facebook Technology Design Failure. But I finally beat it. Cognition is the "mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought,...
The average person would be shock when they learn how small the Australian Higher Education Sector is for citizens and residents of Australia, taking the international market out of the equation. Here is the data: ...
Dear friends, Thoughts? A wealthy school could afford to improve the teaching strategy, the same curriculum, by retro-technology. But in the United States there has been thinking on meritocracy for nearly a century, and, indeed, the reform of...
I have known in my time, petit bullies, pro-vice-chancellors, and even vice-chancellors with silence before public demand for change. Those executive officers who do have genuine conversations on the 'demands for change' are not bullies. The petit bullies are those...
Dear friends and decision makers, Why is Australia so afraid to expand its higher education sector? John Hewson's The trap of student caps. This is John Hewson, the dry, for God's Sake! The government...
Watching the video of Boundary Road Rail Level Crossing Flythrough October 2022, I wept. Jesus Wept (John 11:35). It is weeping of joy and sadness. Joy because, finally, a beautiful solution has been reached in the Boundary Road Rail Level...
"Once again, there are signs of deep trouble for the humanities in higher education — in the Western world, if not the world as a whole. News of closures trickles in relentlessly. At New Zealand’s Victoria University, ancient Greek, Latin, and Italian were all given...