In What Is Education? Part 1, Scott Harris joins Melanie and Michael to discuss what parents, teachers, and professionals need to know about education. How does a teacher know she’s doing well? What standards could she use to judge the education of her students? And her own teaching? Using good principles of education, what can […]
Read MoreIn our latest podcast (also on iTunes), Scott Harris discusses ideas and techniques parents, teachers, adults, business professionals, and students can use to better learn and educate. We all have to use principles of education and communication to work with other people. We need good techniques to teach our children, teach students, teach other adults, […]
Read MoreAn idea key to science and successful life — and good education — happens from about 1:24 to 1:56, in this video excerpt from the 1996 movie Infinity, about the great physicist Richard Feynman. “You got to look at the bird. You got to listen to the bird. You got to try to understand what […]
Read MoreAllan Savory makes use of math in his work in land management, using, for example, the sigmoid function. He talks about his work (but not the math; he needed to keep it simple for the general audience) in his TED talk How to Green the Desert and Reverse Climate Change. You can see some of […]
Read MoreAndrew Carnegie was born on November 25, 1835. In “Carnegie, an Intellectual Capitalist,” Scott Holleran says: On his first job as a young teenager, Carnegie worked in a factory, and he made an effort to spend part of every Sunday discussing and debating issues with friends. Eventually, he left that job when he was hired […]
Read MoreOn WYNC.org, they say “starting March 10, WNYC’s Brian Lehrer will be moderating First Principles, a series of three debates on the moral underpinnings of today’s politics. The event co-sponsored by Demos, The Ayn Rand Institute and It’s A Free Country.” Describing the event in more detail at First Principles, they say: First Principles: The Moral […]
Read MoreIn the Introduction to A Treatise on Political Economy the author, Jean-Baptiste Say (1767-1832), makes some insightful comments on all science: I.1 A SCIENCE only advances with certainty, when the plan of inquiry and the object of our researches have been clearly defined; otherwise a small number of truths are loosely laid hold of, without […]
Read MoreThe video “How the Price System Works,” in the series of videos in which professors of economics discuss chapters from Henry Hazlitt‘s Economics in One Lesson, is interesting. I recommend it. In a better world, we’d be seeing things like this (and good, abstract but concretized debates and arguments about it) on television — and […]
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