In practice, theory and practice are… defunded 9 Oct 201024 Nov 2022 How come Bill Benzon gets his own comic? Academe Education
Education An education reform 22 Aug 201122 Jun 2018 You, like me, are most likely sick to the back teeth of education reforms. Every few years along comes another proposal to “fix” the education system, which everyone who has ever had any contact with it knows is broken. Each reform consists solely of some superficial and singular change, which… Read More
Education Early modern philosophy texts for students 16 Mar 2009 As you may have noticed, I am something of a Victorian – as well as being from that wonderful state, I also write as if I were a nineteenth century writer. It comes of reading too many of them over too long a period. I have little trouble when the… Read More
Academe Time to re-evaluate higher education 2 May 201122 Jun 2018 When my grandfather was a boy of 14, he started a career as a fireman that led to him being the chief of the Melbourne Metropolitan Fire Brigade in the 1930s. While he did this he gained an engineer’s certificate, but he was working, earning and building a career. He… Read More
‘Cause I know the cartoonist, that’s why. But if you look around at the Mimi & Eunice site I’m sure you’ll find stuff that ring’s your bell.