Hello, Dear Learners! In Teaching as a Subversive Activity (1969), Neil Postman begins by quoting Hemingway from an earlier interview as saying that the one essential ingredient required for a person to be a ‘great writer’ is a ‘built-in, shockproof crap detector’. Postman ends by stating that ‘The new education…learning how to learn… has asContinue reading “Crap Detection 101”
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Want to be serious or silly?
Do you wonder about the veracity of \’truths\’ that journalists rush to tell us? How do they KNOW this is truth? Says who? To determine fact from fiction, science has developed a system of observation and investigation, and you too can be a scientist, or at least you can be a more critical consumer ofContinue reading “Want to be serious or silly?”
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