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Category Archives: Education
Education: Are we living in a post-academic world?
My aggravation with the modern education system is well-documented, but part of that aggravation is based on a legitimate question: have we entered into a post-academic era? For a long period of history, the best and sometimes only way to learn something was to gain that knowledge from someone already considered an expert in whatever the field […] Continue reading
Posted in Education, Philosophy
Tagged Credentials, Education Models, Self-education
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Orders of magnitude
$40,000,000,000,000 — the total government indebtedness as of 2011 $25,000,000,000,000 — the total state and local debt as of 2011 $14,590,000,000,000 — the US GDP $14,184,254,500,000 — the total national debt as of 5 March 2011 $3,550,000,000,000 — the federal … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Education, Government, Nations, News, Politics, Society, Spending, United States, World Watch
Tagged Budgets, Consequences, magnitude, priorities, Spending
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My indictment against unions and the politicians trying to take their bargaining rights away
I have maintained all along that both sides in the growing debacle over union collective bargaining rights are wrong, and as the situation continues to develop, I believe each side becomes more wrong than they were to begin with. The … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Education, Government, History, Nations, News, Politics, Society, Spending, United States, World Watch
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More on the cost of reality
I love that the debate over stripping public unions of the collective bargaining rights has degenerated into an argument, essentially, about protecting union negotiated entitlements. In embracing this debate, both sides have distracted themselves from reality again–that is, the thing … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Education, Government, Nations, News, Politics, Society, Spending, United States, World Watch
Tagged Budgets, crises, Debates, deficits, disasters, failures, Insolvency, missing the point, money, Ohio, partisan, Politics, unions, Wisconsin
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