Education

Late Night Reading

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A Rawlsian response to home schooling and…read the comments (even if Will Baude doesn’t like comments). If you are not already doing so you should read Crooked Timber every day…whether you are left, right or orthogonal.
Barbara Karkabi interviews Molly Ivins for the Houston Chronicle. Via Mad Kane.
This review of Mystic River presents a different picture than the one linked in last night’s Late Night Reading.
George Lakoff will help you understand the framing of ideas in political discourse. Useful to all persuasions. Via David Isenberg who was talking about the telecom industry.
Good Night!

What Have You Learned Today?

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Jeff, Gamer’s Nook, talks about MIT’s Open Courseware site and says:

Personally I think this is a brilliant idea and provides a first step in an attempt to eliminate world-wide illiteracy. But the despots of the world may think otherwise because an educated populace undermines their power base. I wonder which country will be the first to start blocking MIT’s site.

This, in its first iteration, is a great site. Open Courseware does not appear to provide an interactive class experience but for the life long, self motivated learner it provides more then enough for you work through any of the classes.
It’s unlikely that in its current form it will be subject to much blocking and, for the resourceful learner, similar, but much less organized, material is available on many University web sites.