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Educating Entrepreneurs, Or Why Steve Jobs Hated School [Open College transcript]

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We’re now posting serially at thinkspot the transcripts of my Open College podcasts. Here’s the fourteenth: Steve Jobs’s conflictual school experiences raise a question: Did Steve Jobs fail to adapt himself to the system, or did the school system fail to fit Steve Jobs? Audio versions of the podcast are available free at my website, […]

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“Can women and minorities think rigorously?” The SJW say “No”

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Old-time racists and sexists said: “Clear thinking — it’s not for woman, minorities, and gays.” Social-Justice Wokists today say: “Exactly!!” Rigorous thinking, according to some, is a virtue that leads to safe high-voltage electrical systems, pharmaceutical doses that are precisely calibrated, and bridges that stay up. Not so, says engineering Professor Donna Riley. Rather it

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Faculties of (Re-)Education: Training the Teachers

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At James Lindsay’s New Discourses site, check out Calum Anderson’s “A Postmodern Inquisition: Faculties of (Re)-Education?” Today, teacher training programs have embraced a secular orthodoxy in postmodernism, an ideology which exalts activism and social justice to the detriment of discourse and critical thinking. Ironically, today’s activists closely resemble Galileo’s inquisitors. While dissenting voices may not

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On Princeton’s re-naming the Woodrow Wilson school

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I agree with the university’s decision to drop Wilson’s name. The man’s anti-individualism came in many terrible versions: racist, socialist, and statist-democratic. Here’s Professor Wilson, before he became President, endorsing democratic socialism: ‘State socialism’ … proposes that all idea of a limitation of public authority by individual rights be put out of view, and that

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