I rise to defend the faculty lounge, that magical idea factory that has become, in the current presidential campaign, an object of unexpected derision.
We know that we live in a “new normal” – a period of time in which we have to find innovative and creative strategies to earn our way and fuel our ambitions for the Commonwealth. The economic landscape requires us to work in more collaborative and efficient ways to move forward as we seek to honor the Kentucky Promise that marked our founding.
President Eli Capilouto of the University of Kentucky
What a crock…
By virtue of being born in the wrong year, today’s college grads are doing far worse — and research shows that that disadvantage is likely to stick with them for years to come.
Pundits may be asking if the Internet is bad for our children’s mental development, but the better question is whether the form of learning and knowledge-making we are instilling in our children is useful to their future.
motherjones: What does it look like when an education reporter gets schooled by Matt Damon and his mom? Like this.
Literacy and the Population Problem
Compared with illiterate young women, educated ones desire smaller families and generally manage to achieve that goal. The researchers are not saying that better access to family planning and contraception are unimportant — merely that these need to go hand-in-hand with improved education.
We should think of education as a kind of intellectual cross-training that leads to many more things than at any one moment you could possibly know would be useful. The most powerful education generates further curiosity, new needs, experiences to meet those needs, more curiosity and so on.
Education isn’t just an object that you use to get started in a career; education is a catalytic resource that continues to energize and shape your life. Education enhances your ability to develop new skills and capacities for connectivity that allow you to solve problems and seize opportunities.
