A Cache of Science Fair Boards
2014-03-09 – My wife Kit was cleaning out a closet yesterday and found a pile of science fair and history fair projects. The glue has dried out and the pieces […]
Tag Archives: Education
Neither Shall They Learn War
2013-11-07 – Okay. I was bad in my last post on behavioral learning. In my defense, I was on a train when I wrote it. I don’t know what that […]
Behavioral Learning
2013-11-4 – I am riding Amtrak’s Empire Builder across Wisconsin as the sun is setting. Today is the first full day after the switch from daylight savings time and […]
Evil Cohort
2013-07-07 – Think about cave people. Can you imagine cave people rounding up 30 11-year-olds and forcing them to sit in rows for six hours a day with only one […]
How EI Effective Are You?
2013-05-03 – Yesterday I tweeted a Wall Street Journal story about a new practice among top business schools to test their applicants’ emotional intelligence (EI). This reminded me of […]
Cohorts Not Kids
2013-04-02 – The term for it is “cohort.” We send cohorts through school, not kids. Kids on the leading edge do well, but the further back you are in the […]
Warm and Sunny
2013-03-22 – I don’t know about March Madness. I’m not a basketball fan. The March madness I know about is the persistence of sub-freezing temperature in Chicago after the first […]
Being Yourself
2013-03-13 – They tell you to be yourself. In some ways this is good advice. You don’t have to remember anything special to be yourself. And you’re probably pretty good […]
Cross Words
2013-02-03 – “. . . Where seldom is heard a cross word . . .” Sorry, it should say “. . . where seldom is heard a discouraging word (and […]
Roman Holiday
2012-11-25 – My son Cal is home from college for the Thanksgiving weekend. He goes back today. When Cal’s around we get to see his high school buddy Roman. Last […]
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