I got to talking to one of my favorite coffee shop girls at my favorite coffee shop today. She’s 23 and just graduated from College and living with her younger sister, 21, and we were talking about differences in age. In my day job I spend a lot of time interacting with people in the [...]
I listened to the TED talk of Sir Ken Robinson on education from the tweet of Chris Brogan. The short quote: If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original. But there is a lot more there about how the education system is built to get people into college as an [...]
A New York Times article on paying kids based on their standardized test scores: City of Angels dvd …a seventh-grade English class was asked one morning if there were too many standardized tests. Every hand in the room shot up to answer with a defiant yes. But at the same time, the students all agreed [...]
In September 1963 [George] McGovern became the only senator who opposed U.S. involvement in Vietnam during the Kennedy administration. He came by his horror of war honorably in 35 B-23 missions over Germany, where half the B-24 crews did not survive—they suffered a higher rate of fatalities than did Marines storming Pacific islands. McGovern was [...]
