18 February 2005
The new Chief Inquisitor on campus
by mikepower
From ethics committees to ‘learning outcomes’, the threat to academic freedom comes from within the university as much as from without. By Frank Ferudi
25 January 2005
Squashed Philosophers- Condensed Plato Aristotle Augustine Descartes Hume Marx Freud Copernicus Hobbes Sartre Ayer Sade Wittgenstein Einstein
by mikepower & 17 others
The books which defined the way The West thinks now Condensed and abridged to keep the substance, the style and the quotes, but ditching all that irritating verbiage.
22 January 2005
Philip Pullman: Common sense has much to learn from moonshine
by mikepower
If we want children to write well, giving them formal instruction in grammar turns out not to be any use; getting them actually writing seems to help a great deal more. There was no evidence at all that the teaching of grammar had any beneficial effect on
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