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Education: confronting the confusion of tongues

Posted on July 21, 2016 by John Connell

I’m sure that my Christian and Jewish friends see it differently, but from my secular and humanist perspective, the biblical story of the Tower of Babel i...

Creativity/History/Learning/Pedagogy/Society/Teaching

The Reflective Teacher as Reflective Learner

Posted on May 15, 2016 by John Connell

The teacher has a place of honour in human history; there is an inherent nobility in teaching that persists even today when perhaps the teacher’s true wor...

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Putting the Makar in the Maker Movement

Posted on April 14, 2016 by John Connell

The makar has been an exalted component of Scottish literature and culture for more than 600 years. The makars were the makers of poems, the ancient poets and b...

Books/Culture/History/People/Reading/Writing

Kennys Bookshop: “a world of its own, and a key to worlds unknown”

Posted on April 14, 2016 by John Connell

I love bookshops. I love all kinds of bookshops but I have a special liking for stores that sell secondhand books. I do buy a lot of new books, from both physic...

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Deschooling YOU: The School & the Sovereignty of Knowledge

Posted on May 27, 2015 by John Connell

For as long as school has existed, the fundamental model of schooling has remained the same: scarcity of information and a paucity of means of access to that in...

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The Learning Society: social and economic progress through education

Posted on November 4, 2014 by John Connell

The printing press sowed the seeds of social and economic progress, heralding a time when ‘change itself [became] the archetypal norm of social life’...

Culture/History/Learning/Social Technology

The Penny University

Posted on September 22, 2013 by John Connell

The coffeehouse was a place for like-minded scholars to congregate, to read, as well as to learn from and to debate with each other, but it was emphatically not...

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Values for Today’s Education

Posted on September 21, 2013 by John Connell

We want one class of persons to have a liberal education. We want another class of persons, a very much larger class of necessity, to forego the privileges of a...

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Egypt’s Youth Breaking Conservative Bounds

Posted on September 10, 2013 by John Connell

On a pre-Arab-Spring trip to Egypt, I came across a very interesting example of how people are using social technologies to undermine the stifling conventions o...

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Learning in Abundance

Posted on September 9, 2013 by John Connell

So I then came to define education as learning under the assumption of scarcity, learning under the assumption that the means for acquiring something called kno...

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