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Submitted by Lord Mayhem on 22 June 2008 - 12:00pm.
Source: ST News | Author: Rowling, J. K. | Date:
J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter novels, was principal speaker at Harvard University's 357th Commencement on June 5. She also received an honorary doctor of letters degree from the school. Here is an excerpt of her speech. read more »


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Submitted by Lord Mayhem on 2 June 2007 - 4:22pm.

THE SABER-TOOTH CURRICULUM

by J. Abner Peddiwell

Adapated from: Benjamin, H.R.W., Saber-tooth Curriculum, Including Other Lectures in the History of Paleolithic Education, McGraw-Hill, 1939.

The first great educational theorist and practitioner of whom my imagination has any record (began Dr. Peddiwell in his best professorial tone) was a man of Chellean times whose full name was New-Fist-Hammer-Maker but whom, for convenience I shall hereafter call New-Fist.  read more »



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Submitted by Lord Mayhem on 31 October 2006 - 11:36am.

This series of articles is prepared in submission for my assessment in the course "Creativity in Visual Arts".  read more »



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Submitted by Lord Mayhem on 15 October 2006 - 6:15pm.
Quote:
Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
Author:
John Dewey


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Submitted by Lord Mayhem on 8 June 2006 - 4:34pm.
Quote:
The world is a dangerous place. Not because of the people who are evil; but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
Author:
Albert Einstein


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Submitted by Lord Mayhem on 8 June 2006 - 4:34pm.
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Education is the process by which the individual relates himself to the universe, give himself citizenship in the changing world, share's the race's mind and enfranchises his own soul.
Author:
John H. Finley


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Submitted by Lord Mayhem on 8 June 2006 - 4:33pm.
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The function of the university is not simply to teach bread winning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools or to be a centre of polite society; it is, above all, to be the organ of that fine adjustment between life and the growing knowledge of life, an adjustment which forms the secret of civilization.
Author:
W.E.B Du Brois


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Submitted by Lord Mayhem on 8 June 2006 - 4:32pm.
Quote:
Education make a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive, easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
Author:
Lord Brougham


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Submitted by Lord Mayhem on 8 June 2006 - 4:32pm.
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Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course--because, like democracy and freedom, many people you'll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you.
Author:
Alice Drue Miller


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