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The trouble with being educated is that it takes a long time; it uses up the better part of your life and when you are finished what you know is that you would have benefited more by going into banking.
Philip K. Dick

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Intelligence is not a measure of how much we know how to do, but of how we behave when we don’t know what to do.
John Holt, How Children Fail

Divided Attention

In an age of classroom multitasking, scholars probe the nature of learning and memory

David Glenn, The Chronicle Review

“That illusion of competence is one of the things that worry scholars who study attention, cognition, and the classroom. Students’ minds have been wandering since the dawn of education. But until recently—so the worry goes—students at least knew when they had checked out. A student today who moves his attention rapid-fire from text-messaging to the lecture to Facebook to note-taking and back again may walk away from the class feeling buzzed and alert, with a sense that he has absorbed much more of the lesson than he actually has.”

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Board Confuses Authors of 'Brown Bear,' 'Ethical Marxism'

“The Texas Board of Education, worried that a scholar’s book about Marxism might infiltrate a portion of the state’s third grade curriculum, accidentally has banned work by the author of the popular children’s book Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?, The Dallas Morning News reported. The intended target of the ban was Bill Martin, a professor of philosophy at DePaul University, who offended some Texas board members with his book Ethical Marxism: The Categorical Imperative of Liberation. But the board accidentally banned work by Bill Martin Jr., author of Brown Bear.”

Brown Bear, Brown Bear, what do you see? I see some Texans with no brains it seems.

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Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don’t.
Pete Seeger
This “Solar System” quilt was made by Ellen Harding Baker of Cedar County, Iowa, in 1876. National Museum of American History

This “Solar System” quilt was made by Ellen Harding Baker of Cedar County, Iowa, in 1876.

National Museum of American History