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Walking the tightrope between cynicism and sincerity

Mar 16, 2016 | Category: Featured
Life is either always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope. Edith Wharton I wrote recently about unscrupulous optimism. Mostly this seems to have been understood as a warning against...
#John Fowles #Carl Sagan #Andrew Marr #cynicism #scepticism

Some assumptions about scripted lessons

Jan 31, 2016 | Category: Featured
"So long as we use a certain language, all questions that we can ask will have to be formulated in it and will thereby confirm the theory of the universe which is implied in the vocabulary and struc...
#Carl Sagan #Richard Feynman #Direct Insruction #scripts

#ResearchED - Everything you know about education is wrong

Sep 06, 2014 | Category: Featured
If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong. Charles F. Kettering I realise I must have come as something as a disappointment for all those expecting the curly-headed medical mis...
#Wittgenstein #Carl Weiman #Carl Sagan #Bayes' Theorem #Gerd Gigerenzer #Karl Popper #Richard Feynman

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