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Too grad school

From a report written as part of the University of Washington‘s Re-envisioning the Ph.D. project (they have a lot of interesting stuff on their site): I wanted to add this, a “too” list: Graduate school is too expensive, graduate school is too impersonal. It focuses people down a narrow path. It discourages social interaction. It […]
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Searching for Education

I’ve been waiting for them to start teaching searching, alongside spelling, in school. – Larry Page, co-founder of Google
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It’s not EE-ran?

“If you take away the government, you have the people. And that’s the way it should be.” – Marjane Satrapi, Iranian artist (Not talking about Iran… here’s why.)
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Still a little chilly

Every parish town and village assemble themselve’s together. Men and women and children, old and young and go off, some to the woods and groves, some to the hills and mountains, where they spend the night in pastimes. In the morning they return bringing with them birch-boughs and trees to deck their assemblies withal. I’ve […]
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