Showing posts with label education. Show all posts
Showing posts with label education. Show all posts

Friday, May 22, 2009

The case for working with your hands

This is interesting. It's got lots of important themes:
  • human agency
  • the importance of failure
  • location in a community
  • what makes a "good job"
Give him a listen!

Friday, March 27, 2009

What the...

I could be wrong about this, of course, but aren't institutions of higher learning supposed to support and elevate discourse...to value the exchange of ideas and to learn to live within their inherent tensions? To make us better thinkers and citizens, able to debate without lobbing grenades at one another?

What's all the fuss, Notre Dame?