Thoughts

thoughts, ideas, questions, and rants

why go to college?

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August 16, 2010

As a prospective high school teacher (read: unemployed teacher…), I don’t give college education as much focus as I probably should. From my most recent bout of college life I have come to the sad conclusion that the less I have to do with these organizations the better. I used to think that my perspectives [...]


meta-cognition

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August 15, 2010

I am not a big fan of this term (meta-cognition) in that it is nowhere as exact a term as it should be. Meta-cognition mean to think about thinking, but to me this starts to imply some sort of recursive ‘hall of mirrors’ sort of navel gazing which would be antithetical to what it really [...]


plagiarism…

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August 12, 2010

I was reading the editorial page of the New York Times the other day (on my iPhone for free…for now…) and ran across a few letters to the editor commenting upon a previous newspaper article about the problems which teachers and academics are having with plagiarism. In this new world with almost infinite access to [...]


travel blogs…

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August 11, 2010

I’ve always found that there is a big difference between ‘travel’ and ‘vacations’. Nowadays, taking a vacation would seem to be an excuse to get out of town and pamper yourself, you know, the thoughts of lying on a beautiful beach, or sitting in a chaise lounge reading a book while drinking something with an [...]


life is a bowl of cherries…

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August 10, 2010

The other day, the thought struck me that literally every avocation, sport, pastime, and hobby can be (an often is) used as a metaphor for life. Sometimes these perspectives are quite hackneyed (i.e. close to what pro athletes say in TV interviews), and other times they might be quite instructive.  


Strange books…

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August 8, 2010
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili

It’s gotten to the part of the summer where many go on vacation. And an integral part of any vacation is to have something to read. I guess we all have a personal vision of lying in some recliner reading an engrossing book while sipping some sort of a ‘parasol’ drink. The de rigueur reading [...]


post-industrialism

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August 6, 2010

While I am trying to look at some of the big ideas au currant, post-industrialism might better be called a concept. There is a difference, in that a big idea usually has some adherents trying to accomplish some aim related to the idea. I hear the term post-industrialism used on TV political/economic pundit shows as [...]


Keynesian Economics

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August 4, 2010

It goes without saying that we are in the midst of an economic downturn (understatement alarm!). If you read the news you would see that there is a lot of coverage about the nature of the economy as well as the efforts of the current administration to address these woes. There is also a lot [...]


Post modernism (and the Gutenberg Parenthesis)

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August 3, 2010

This week’s attempt by me to look over some of the big ideas which float at the periphery of our world start with one of the bigger ideas (big in the sense that it has more influence over your life than you would believe…). Postmodernism is a concept I had thrust in my face when [...]


big ideas

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August 2, 2010

For whatever reason, the thought of thinking and posting something about ideas came to me today. We all have ideas, but some are bigger than others. For instance, I certainly don’t consider myself enough of an adept to discuss something like string theory on this blog (or anywhere else for that matter…). For me this [...]


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