[L]et us review quickly the kind of advice formulated by Machiavelli as administrative policies for rulers who would widen their powers or keep themselves in power: Either treat well or crush; defend weak neighbors and…
Date Archives May 2012
Calculable Obligations: Motivations of Money and Technology
Debt, that is, as opposed to a promise, is a calculable obligation. I was reading a review of two books on the current state of global indebtedness in the London Review of Books (“Forgive Us…
The Logic of Technagogy
Our advances in technology offer what we might call short-cuts to thinking and doing. The logic of technagogy might be stated thus: the more technology we use in elementary and secondary schools the less the…
The Blank Slate of the Technagogical Mind
Our technagogical managers have the shallowest of minds. They are not philosophers or thinkers even by the least standard applicable. They are manualists When sexual stimulation causes local release of NO, inhibition of PDE5 by…
Technagogy
What say you to the idea that we are now no more, no greater, than reductively technological as beings? We are the “lesser than” species. And this species does not know liberty Sample Psychosocial Assessment…
Soulless We Externalize
For Eric…seeking a French story. “But I admit that I am indulging in theoretical considerations of the short story, although happily I can disregard them when I begin to write. But I am not satisfied…
Teaching as CIA Cover–Gülen Charter Schools, Dan Burton, and State Secrets
The following continues Doug Martin’s look into the Gülen charter school movement, which began with Islam and the Free Market of Privatized Education: “Friending” the Gülen Charter Schools. Besides noting U.S. charter school connections to…
From William Blum–Earth Day Solution
Written on Earth Day, Sunday, April 22, 2012 Eliminate the greatest consumer of energy in the world: The United States military. Here’s Michael Klare, professor of Peace and World Security Studies at Hampshire College, Mass….
Shorter, On Tenure
A teacher in any institution ONLY needs tenure if he/she plans to teach an antagonistic stance to the institution administered nitrate, if necessary, it Is essential to be able toOverall, efficacy data (main and supportive…
Tenure’s Just Another Word for Liberty, So Dump It!
Paul Thomas today at Schools Matter: K-12 Teaching: A Service Industry At The New Republic, “Making the Grade” poses this about the difference between college professors (notice that term “professor,” as in “one who professes”)…