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Category: The Importance Of History In Our Own Lives?
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2024-12-06 Further Discussions on Cognition Histories and Sociology
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, experience, and the senses” It is simply the act or process of knowing. Cognition histories is simply an account of…
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How Small is Australian Higher Education Sector for Domestics?
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: HigherEducationStatisticsExportData.xls The main conclusions, working the smallest section of the population interest in being education:…
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Conversations with, and Between, Queensland Elites
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 meritocracy. What do you think? https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/12/meritocracy-college-admissions-social-economic-segregation/680392/?gift=dpNmmIb8s6tgeaq0wQsEo0G3TC2YmQmhgvxg_L-CK_Y&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share Thoughts? A wealthy school could afford…
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Malcolm is Correct, and the lesson applies to dealing with petit bullies
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 executive officers who feel that they have no need to have the genuine conversation. …
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Why is Australia so afraid to expand its higher education sector? John Hewson’s The trap of student caps
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 policy, and policy for a long time, has been to create a culture-history warfare…
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Weeping Tears of Joy and Sadness: Calling Local Politicians to Accountability
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 Crossing Flythrough. Sadness because my parents passed in their 90s in recent…
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Would our Australian “history” industry push for this “new” global “innovation” to be re-established in Australian universities?
“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 the ax. Michigan’s Cornerstone University, in Grand Rapids, reduced and…
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Picture-Image, Alleged Smart, History, and Perception
The world has completely changed in 12 years for me (as “pictured”), although you can point out unimportant perennial themes, such as the wall items are the same in the office. It goes to how the ‘stupid’ read images in an image-obsessed culture. There are are too many (pre)assumptions in a person’s thinking for/in the…
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The Work of Dzavid Haveric for Queensland History
Dr Dzavid Haveric of Charles Sturt University is the leading historian in the story of Muslim-Australian experiences. He has also published about an Islamic leader, sometime ago, in Queensland history, who was a philosopher. His work covers those experiences of soldiers during World War I (and more) who were of the Islamic faith or…
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Happy Birthday. From Those Who Understand Accountability! The Youngest Daughter’s Gift.
Today, is my birthday, my 63rd birthday. The second of a three post series. My youngest daughter gave the following birthday present: Kurt Almqvist and Mattias Hesserus (2022; editors). Knowledge and information: The Potential and Peril of Human Intelligence, Stolpe Publishing. As a book for our times it is…