modern education
good job humans, you are starting to figure it out
Not all the members of our species get it yet, but a few do. At the heart of every crisis we currently face is the modern system of education. Our educational model churns out an advanced primate concerned with security and the desire to be important while focusing solely on how to have a good [...]
the vanishing of a species?
While I’ve read many books on the problems facing humanity, Geologist Dr. Peter Greetner’s The Vanishing of a Species? was a unique experience. Published posthumously by his son Nick, The Vanishing of a Species? is a look at the problems of the mid to late 1970s that ironically we still face almost forty years later. [...]
why do we need PhDs?
I’m approaching the end of my first semester in graduate school at the University of British Columbia and I’m really enjoying the field of the materials sciences. Thusly, I’m beginning to consider the advantages of a PhD in the field. Yet part of me hesitates.
Paul Hawken answers all the questions you have about not having a job out of college
Paul Hawken is an awesome speaker and writer, and that shows through in his 2009 address to University of Portland graduates. The answer to your unemployment problem? ”…the Earth is Hiring.”
Thoughts from Ascent of Humanity: Modern Education
The universal response to why we go to school is “to learn” but modern schooling has proved to do otherwise.
