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Does education need a paradigm shift?

If you look at a classroom in the 50s and a classrooom in the present day, not much as changed. I doubt anyone thinks the current paradigm is flawless and unable to be improved. So why has education stayed mostly the same for the past century? Besides some minor changes like the adoption of...

There is an interesting discussion to be had about this topic. When teaching history, should the teacher in question reiterate the importance of having differing points of view on a particular set of historical facts? I remember my history teacher would always ask us what we thought of certain...

Capitalist Realism - Is There No Alternatative by Mark Fisher A brilliant diagnosis of our current culture. A very readable book that's interesting even for those not usually titillated by philosophy or political-economic theory.