Monthly Archives: May 2012

In “Deep in the Heart of Texas“, Stanley Fish notes that we aren’t always in the best position to judge the quality of something.  We don’t always know immediately after we obtain something what its actual worth is.  This is … Continue reading →

I’m not sure how it happened, but I ended up having two Washington Post articles up on my screen at the same time: “Is college too easy? As study time falls, debate rises.” and “I went to some of D.C.’s … Continue reading →

“The path to smart goes through dumb.”  A colleague of mine, Dr. Dan Dill, says this.  I really like the sentiment.  Students don’t realize that most of what they will learn in college won’t come easy and it will take … Continue reading →

The New York times always has some interesting comments on education.  “Vocation or Exploration? Pondering the Purpose of College” discusses what is the point of college.  Students come to college for all kinds of reasons (or maybe hardly an reason … Continue reading →

Online education isn’t new, but recently its gotten a bit bigger.  Stanford taught 160,000 students CS221: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence.  MIT was already in the mix with MITx.  Now Harvard and MIT just put together 60-million dollars to work on … Continue reading →