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School of Osmosis: A Declaration of Purpose
So often, the concept of education is limited to a model where information flows one way, from an educator to pupils, with the assumption that what is being taught is a set of static instructions that must be imparted in … Continue reading
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My Blunderbuss versus the Western Can(n)on
So here’s the beef: Having effectively (unless suddenly the possesor of a winning Powerball ticket) pissed away my opportunities to pursue formal education, I find myself often wondering what exactly I might have been forced to study had I attended … Continue reading
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Tagged autodidactism, education, Great Books, literature, poetry, self-education
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