ideas
Speaking with friends who are educators of the young one, thing has become apparent. The idea that learning is achieved by building foundations or layers of knowledge is passe. The MTV generation want their learning pre-packaged and easily digested. No more learning the basics and practising them to become expert
ethics
I just saw Susan Greenfield - a.k.a. Baroness Professor Susan Greenfield - on a television chat show. She is a pioneering scientist, entrepreneur, communicator of science, policy adviser, and an extremely interesting presenter of complex ideas. She seems to be intelligent, vivacious and wears makeup and nice clothes.
ideas
Ken Burns makes some excellent points in this speech, I've picked out some highlights - click here to see the entire text (in PDF). Now more than ever we in the western world should heed speakers like this. Ken speaks of a United States that has inspired many
innovation
Daniel's points are all too true! Australia is a broadband backwater and it is all due to the incompetence of Telstra. They have a number of practices that have worked against take-up of these solutions. So much for the clever country? Daniels Blog: I think the root of