23/1/2004
Veranderingen / changes
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12:36 cet [#]
22/1/2004
What is intelligence?
" Professor Bob Burden, professor of applied educational psychology at Exeter University, doesn't even believe intelligence exists. "Or, if it does, it should be used as an adjective or an adverb only and not as a noun," he says. "It's just a hypothetical construct psychologists have used to describe how people behave. How I would behave in the Amazon jungle is a lot less intelligently than I would in this job. And if something goes wrong with my car I open the bonnet and hope someone will come and help me. It just depends on the context." "
10:51 cet [#]
21/1/2004
The Problem Of Modern Schooling
" I taught for thirty years in some of the worst schools in Manhattan, and in some of the best, and during that time I became an expert in boredom. Boredom was everywhere in my world, and if you asked the kids, as I often did, why they felt so bored, they always gave the same answers: They said the work was stupid, that it made no sense, that they already knew it. They said they wanted to be doing something real, not just sitting around. They said teachers didn't seem to know much about their subjects and clearly weren't interested in learning more. And the kids were right: their teachers were every bit as bored as they were. "
John Taylor Gatto
Read his book on-line here.
08:59 cet [#]
20/1/2004
Why digital cameras make better photographers
" Over Christmas, my Auntie took 20 photos of her Brussels sprouts at the dinner table, and every one was awful so she deleted them - what was the point? "
five reasons why digital cameras
make us better photographers
23:19 cet [#]
18/1/2004
Fran Lebowicz
Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.
22:39 cet [#]
16/1/2004
A False Sense of Security
" Why does the widespread proliferation of closed-circuit television cameras in the UK go unchallenged, and even unnoticed? 'CCTV cameras have a mysterious knack for justifying themselves regardless of what happens to crime', Rosen explains. 'When crime goes up, the cameras get credit for detecting it, and when crime goes down, they get the credit for preventing it.' "
Sp!ked about Jeffrey Rosen's Naked Crowd
10:35 cet [#]
15/1/2004
Managementstalk
U vertelt managers dat winst er niet toe doet?
'Natuurlijk niet. Winst is als zuurstof. Je kunt niet zonder. Maar als zuurstof een doel wordt, ben je een longpatiënt.'
Fons Trompenaars in Intermediair.
01:36 cet [#]
14/1/2004
Nobel Prize Winners Hating School
. . and there is, on the whole, nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. To begin with, it is a prison. But it is in some respects more cruel than a prison. In a prison, for instance, you are not forced to read books written by the warders (who of course would not be warders and governors if they could write readable books)
G.B. Shaw
23:27 cet [#]
13/1/2004
Raadsel opgelost
De ritsjes onder aan mijn regenbroek zijn altijd dicht als ik het ding weer wil aantrekken. Onhandig, raadselachtig, en vreemd. Vandaag viel me ineens op dat ik bij thuiskomst eerst mijn schoenen uittrek, voor mijn regenbroek uitgaat. En dan hoeven die ritsjes niet meer open. Raadsel opgelost.
22:31 cet [#]
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