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Monday, March 16, 2009
Dante Resource
Although we are way past Dante in this point of our study, The Princeton Dante Project might still be of interest to you.
Friday, March 13, 2009
What is Education?
This brief but concise article on the "death of public education" explains very nicely the difference between education and job training.
Opening lines:
"Education, in so many words, is knowing what things are for, not simply how they work. The truly educated person understands the proper uses to which such things as bodies, brains, governments, art, and sport are put, not merely how to eat, how to execute difficult mathematical computattions, how to win an election, how to paint a still life, or how to hit a curveball."
Opening lines:
"Education, in so many words, is knowing what things are for, not simply how they work. The truly educated person understands the proper uses to which such things as bodies, brains, governments, art, and sport are put, not merely how to eat, how to execute difficult mathematical computattions, how to win an election, how to paint a still life, or how to hit a curveball."
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