education
In the late eighties, a trend emerged from universities out of an evil trifecta: a) the collapse of the alternative communist society; b) rebellion against "Western Civ", and c) the adoption of "critical pedagogy" in teaching. Suddenly, a chilling era of "political correctness" descended
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Play is nature's mechanism of teaching and learning: competition, reward, repetition, collaboration, failure, creativity, and more. Without sacrificing in-person socialisation, we can update classical education for the technological homeschooling age, using the tools the children already love by transposing the syllabi of primacy and secondary education into storyline-based
education
Three years ago, before Covid, in late 2019, this site hosted a simplistic timeline presentation which attempted to help ordinary non-academic people understand what had gone so wrong in our universities and institutions. It turned out to be quite popular. But it needed an update. Use the link from the
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It can often feel as if the world has gone mad or turned upside down. How did we get from the age of reason to barely knowing or caring what truth is anymore? The answer is complex. But mostly, half a century of academic imposters who couldn't work