Category: Education
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Summertime, and the Learning is Easy
The traditional school year in the United States and much of the rest of the world has been faulted for inefficiency: surely we could get more learning done, or do the same amount in less time, by simply continuing throughout the year, and not taking the summer off for what the English call the “long…
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December 17: Hearing Patterns
One of the things about watching movies or TV shows multiple times is that certain phrases stick: they come back to you, triggered by odd connections your brain makes between the quotation and current experience. So today, looking through the list of events, I found three that provoked such echoes: In 1790, Spanish officials were…
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December 9: Peter Fourier
One of the lesser known saints on the Roman Catholic calendar has his feast today: Peter Fourier. Fourier did not hold a high episcopal office, nor was he a prolific writer; he attracted my attention in the list of events, births, and deaths for December 9 because he promoted education. He was born in 1565…