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Nifty! Know a girl aged 8 – 11?

15 May 2009, 12:41 am. Comments Off. Filed under Education.

Via the ines­timable [info]ideageek: Teach­ing girls to pro­gram
“Kids learn­ing to sto­ry­board, brain­storm, cri­tique, design, pitch ideas, psue­docode, actu­ally code, and make toys do things.”

Cur­rent Mood: (bouncy) bouncy

TotD: Doris Lessing on Education

16 July 2008, 4:33 am. 1 Comment. Filed under Education, Thought of the Day.

The Golden NotebookDoris Less­ing, Intro­duc­tion to The Golden Notebook

Ide­ally, what should be said to every child, repeat­edly, through­out his or her school life is some­thing like this:

“You are in the process of being indoc­tri­nated. We have not yet evolved a sys­tem of edu­ca­tion that is not a sys­tem of indoc­tri­na­tion. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do. What you are being taught here is an amal­gam of cur­rent prej­u­dice and the choices of this par­tic­u­lar cul­ture. The slight­est look at his­tory will show how imper­ma­nent these must be. You are being taught by peo­ple who have been able to accom­mo­date them­selves to a regime of thought laid down by their pre­de­ces­sors. It is a self-​​perpetuating sys­tem. Those of you who are more robust and indi­vid­ual than oth­ers will be encour­aged to leave and find ways of edu­cat­ing your­self – edu­cat­ing your own judge­ments. Those that stay must remem­ber, always, and all the time, that they are being moulded and pat­terned to fit into the nar­row and par­tic­u­lar needs of this par­tic­u­lar society.”

School & More Reading

2 July 2008, 11:54 pm. Comments Off. Filed under College, Education, Reading.

Reg­is­tra­tion closes tomor­row, so I have to decide before the end of the day whether or not I’m tak­ing classes for sum­mer semes­ter or not. Bah. I want a break, but if I’m not in school my stu­dent loans come out of deferment.

I’ve been read­ing – and lov­ing–Patri­cia Briggs’ Mercy Thomp­son books. They’re a lot of fun, so I’m push­ing them at Sam, too.

Briggs has some amus­ing infor­ma­tion on her site about sil­ver bul­lets, includ­ing a reprint (with per­mis­sion, of course) of an old Gun World arti­cle, Long Ranger, Go Away!

Poly? Please to take survey!

24 June 2008, 3:48 am. 1 Comment. Filed under Education.

Danielle Duplassie, MA, RCC, a Doc­toral Stu­dent in Human Sex­u­al­ity at The Insti­tute for the Advanced Study of Human Sex­u­al­ity, sent a request to one of the lists I’m on tonight seek­ing polyamorous peo­ple to take a sur­vey that is part of her research. It won’t even take you five min­utes. Go clicky!

Edited: Whoops! I’ve been reminded that I should warn you – there are no graph­ics to speak of on the sur­vey, but the lan­guage gets explicit, so you might not want to do the sur­vey at work.

Monday and R.I.P. George Carlin

23 June 2008, 10:15 pm. 1 Comment. Filed under Critters, Education, Family.

I guess every­body has heard, by now, that we lost George Car­lin last night. I’ve seen many arti­cles about him today, but I think Susie Bright did the best job of catch­ing his spirit.

Today was a very Monday-​​ish Mon­day. I’m grumpy and noth­ing feels right. The girl is off spend­ing time with my fam­ily, and I miss her. Kyoshi is utterly incon­solable – he’s actu­ally mak­ing lit­tle “meep­ing” noises fre­quently. For a cat who is absolutely silent most of the time, that’s seri­ous. He’s really a one-​​human cat. That may be part of the rea­son that I’m hav­ing ter­ri­ble kit­ten crav­ings. Of course, I want kit­tens most of the time, but it’s even more so lately. And I miss Karli, too.

School is over for a few weeks. Accord­ing to the school’s records, I only have two more semes­ters to go. I may need to take a break any­way, as I barely fin­ished this semester’s classes.

On a hap­pier note, Sam made ham­burg­ers after he got home. It’s been a while since he cooked those, and they’re much bet­ter than fast food burg­ers. He’s work­ing on Heart of the Hunter and should have a new chap­ter posted some­time this week.

 

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