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Dorothy Sayers on Education

Dorothy Sayers wrote a brief essay on education in 1947, the Lost Tools of Learning. I have observed that her ideas are about as welcome as Charles Murray's, but for a different reason. In Real Education, Murray rightly criticizes the idea that schooling was better in America in

Physics for Future Presidents

Physics for Future Presidents is a course offered by Richard Muller at Berkeley. The course is intended primarily for liberal arts types, but Muller opened the course up to physics majors because the subject matter is not typically covered in the required courses. This course really is amazing: it covers

Narrower Atlantic

There is an absolutely fascinating article in Prospect about the relative disparities of the United States and Europe in terms of the many, many social statistics that are collected these days. The author makes the excellent point that if you consider the whole range of Europe, from Sweden to Greece,

The Scientific News Cycle

The Scientific News Cycle

The only way to make it more perfect would be to add a p-value. h/t Magistra Scientia and Michael Flynn

Real Education

One of the best books I have read recently on education is Charles Murray's Real Education. Murray lays out four principles that ought to be clear, but very much are not, and lie at the root of the problems in education. I try in my own small way