Personality is not only about who but also where you are
What if patience, and maybe other personality features too, are more a product of where we are than who we are?
Education
What is Education for? A rare look at higher education in prison
Research shows that education is prison can be life changing. For the incarcerated education teaches a deep lesson in freedom.
The New Dark Age
Hope is above all ‘a state of mind … it is a dimension of the soul … It is an orientation of the spirit’
Educating for Freedom: in praise of Freire
What the educator does in teaching is to make it possible for the students to become themselves.
Why speaking to yourself in the third person makes you wiser
We credit Socrates with the insight that ‘the unexamined life is not worth living’ and that to ‘know thyself’ is the path to true wisdom.
Learning Online
Information is everywhere. Here’s our growing list of places that keep learning alive online.
Learning changes you
Higher education has now joined the growing list of subjects about which it is increasingly difficult to have an informed public argument.
Most people don’t grow up – Maya Angelou
Most people don’t grow up. It’s too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older.
This is Water by David Foster Wallace
A powerful short film based on a speech by David Foster Wallace.