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Those who live in this city will be aware, even if peripherally, of the assault on the senses that comes from the juxtaposition of artificial and [...]
October 30, 2020
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One of the fundamental aspects of the Enlightenment’s thinking and its approach to knowledge was the elimination of purpose and its [...]
October 21, 2020
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One of the polls surveyed from attendees at last Thursday’s BERA meeting on knowledge and curriculum was: what should we consider when [...]
October 13, 2020
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I left the first part of this topic with the proposition that until we have defined the type of society we want (and thinking on that has shifted [...]
October 9, 2020
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On Thursday evening the Curriculum special interest group of BERA held an excellent, short introduction into the issues around knowledge, [...]
October 9, 2020
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One of the reasons that libertarian right has flourished in the era of Brexit is its ability to articulate the concept of freedom, whether [...]
October 8, 2020
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This morning’s NY Times has a short article by Peter Goodman whose essential narrative is Britain, operating without adult supervision. [...]
October 5, 2020
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One of the recurring themes from a particular set of educators over the summer has been to question the role and place of tests and exams in our [...]
October 2, 2020
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Back in 2011, I think in February, I was in Oxford for a day to hear Kofi Annan speak at the Sheldonian as part of my college’s 700th [...]
October 2, 2020
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This intriguing phrase occurs in a poem of Wendell Berry’s called Rising. It sits in a 1982 book of poems called The Wheel, the overarching [...]
October 1, 2020