Category: education

  • Oxford Residency with the Saïd Business School

    John V Willshire

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    I’m off this week to work with the Saïd Business School, part of the University of Oxford.  I have been furously packing all the bits and bobs I think I’ll need as part of the week, but there’s always a nagging feeling that there’s something left behind.  Ah well, we’ll find out soon enough. We’ve…

  • On learning – “Consider everything an experiment.”

    John V Willshire

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    I’m a teacher’s son, and I think it’s rubbed off.  It perhaps explains a lot about my presenting style when I get in front of a group of people, and I reckon it’s been useful so far.  What good is it talking about the communication of knowledge if you fail to get it across?  (So,…

  • Noam Chomsky from #lwf12 – what is the purpose of education?

    John V Willshire

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    I was at Learning Without Frontiers for two days last week, a thoroughly brilliant gathering with a phenomenal lineup of speakers. All the videos are going up gradually now, and I’ll share the best ones as they do. But the first one is well worth sitting back for – Noam Chomsky on the biggest question…