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Bertrand Russell’s 10 Essential Rules Of Critical Thinking

TeachThought

Most formal academic ‘platforms’ like public schools and universities tend to parse knowledge into content areas–what is being learned–rather than how and why it is being learned. This, to a degree, reduces the function of pure philosophy.

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Teaching social studies in a polarized world

The Hechinger Report

About 3,500 people attended the conference, among them K-12 and higher ed educators who teach the subjects that constitute social studies — including history, civics, geography, economics, psychology, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, law and religious studies.

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Notes from the UNI Education Summit

Dangerously Irrelevant

I think it’s more psychological than physical. Anthropology professor at UNI, directs the New Iowans Center. e.g., 50 langages at Marshalltown HS, 100+ languages in Des Moines Public Schools. .” – our way of subverting the system so they would leave us alone and we could have fun without being bothered.