Muitas pessoas reclamam sobre como a educação tornou-se tão cara. Na maior parte do tempo elas estão erradas. A escolarização tornou-se mais cara, mas considere o custo dos seguintes recursos educacionais: Khan Academy para aprender matemática: Gratuito. Louvre Online para estudar história da arte: Gratuito. Google Translate para aprender dezenas de línguas: Gratuito. Wikipedia para […]
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Entrepreneurial Education conference Sponsored by the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship Rockford University, Illinois Call for Papers The Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship will be hosting a conference at Rockford University, March 13-14, 2016, on Entrepreneurial Education. On the Entrepreneurial side of the phrase: We live in entrepreneurial times. From the work demand side, there
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A educação superior pode ser um caminho para uma vida bem-sucedida. Ainda assim, muitas pessoas bem-sucedidas não se formaram na faculdade e muitas pessoas malsucedidas têm notas surpreendentemente boas. Então, quem deveria ir para a faculdade? E quem deveria pagar por isso? Vamos começar por imaginar um estudante mediano que deseja ir para a faculdade,
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Clemson University professor C. Bradley Thompson has a good article answering the question “Do Corporate Donors Threaten Academic Freedom?” It prompts me to post here my remarks from 2008, then published as “The Ethics of Outside Funding” [pdf]. The text follows: THE ETHICS OF OUTSIDE FUNDING Stephen R. C. Hicks Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship
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Interview conducted at Rockford University by Stephen Hicks and sponsored by the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship. Hicks: I’m Stephen Hicks. My guest this evening is Professor Jerry Kirkpatrick from California State Polytechnic University in Pomona. He is the author of a new book, Montessori, Dewey and Capitalism. Tonight he gave a lecture to the
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The opening of my latest column at EveryJoe: “Many people complain about how education has become so expensive. Mostly, they are wrong. “Schooling has become more expensive, but consider the cost of the following awesome education resources: Khan Academy for learning math: Free. Louvre Online for experiencing and studying art history: Free. Google Translate for
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I gave a talk in June at a conference sponsored by Fundación para la Responsabilidad Intelectual (FRI), Junior Achievement Argentina, and the John Templeton Foundation. When I was in Buenos Aires, FRI also did three short videos of me addressing questions. Here is a 6-minute video of me on “What Is a Real Education?”: More information on Fundación para la
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An example of using social fear to intimidate students who might ask the “wrong questions.” From a review of Rebecca Goldstein’s Betraying Spinoza: Goldstein tells of “the particularly Jewish way in which Spinoza entered her life. It initially happened, she tells us, in a yeshiva high school for girls. Her favorite teacher, Mrs. Schoenfeld, told
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