I have just opened the balcony door, so I can hear the coarse voices of teenagers walking by. Opening a window might seem like peeping into reality; a young friend of mine once told me (passionately), “Open the window and look out. The world is not what you can see on your computer screen.”
Well, can [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Learning’
7 Jul
Reality check
27 Nov
I refuse to know
(I didn’d know there was a book about Flatland! You can download it by clicking here .)
Some students say that they don’t need to study a subject because it will never serve them in their “real lives”. Others say that they don’t trust a scientific theory because they have not heard [...]
24 Jun
The acorn
An acorn shoots and grows into a mighty oak – that’s the logo of the US department of education. I was amazed: 1) I have always perceived an acorn as something magical 2) the logo stands for growing up into what you were meant to be – you see, it’s not [...]
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