Homines libenter quod volunt credunt
Posted in Education, You Can't Have it Both Ways on Oct 23rd, 2015
Check out what has been going on at Williams College. I’m no impartial spectator here, being a Lord Jeff and all. I always found it interesting that at universities it is perfectly acceptable for the establishment to criticize its critics, but the critics are not permitted to criticize the critic criticizers.
Posted in Education, Employment, Entrepreneurs on Oct 14th, 2015
Our universities almost exclusively send the message to students that they should pursue their passions, find a career they love, and explore. There is nothing of course wrong with those notions insofar as it goes, but they are at best of secondary importance and consideration. Why? All of the above serves as mere consumption value […]
The weekly earnings premium (in dollars, not percentages) enjoyed by graduates of professional and PhD programs over graduates with just a Bachelors is now larger than the earnings premium enjoyed by BA recipients over high school graduates. In percentage terms, the graduate degrees enjoy a 45% premium over BA recipients who in turn enjoy a 65% […]
Posted in Education on Sep 29th, 2015
It took until 4th grade for the direct indoctrination to begin. I look forward to her learning about Mssrs. Haber and Bosch, Norman Borlaug, John Rockefeller and more.
Posted in Economics 108, Education, Flotsam and Jetsam on Aug 25th, 2015
Going through all of the famous Feynman lectures may not be for you, though I do recommend many of them, but reading some of Feynman’s popular work is highly recommended as is learning a little bit more about him. I very much appreciated his comments to close his few years of teaching “Intro” physics at […]
Posted in Education on Aug 24th, 2015
From three All-Stars (Fryer, Levitt and List): This intervention had large and statistically significant positive impacts on both cognitive and non-cognitive test scores of Hispanics and Whites, but no impact on Blacks … Children with above median (pre-treatment) non cognitive scores accrue the most benefits from treatment. In other work, it seems that government R&D subsidies […]
Posted in Education on Aug 15th, 2015
We’ve jumped the shark: employees are now Green Reps. Isn’t this sort of forcing folks to either publicly be “for” or “not for” workplace sustainability? What if one chooses not to become one? Who doesn’t want their workplace to run more efficiently anyhow? I can’t stop thinking about this.
Posted in Education, Government Thuggery on Jun 2nd, 2015
Before reading the following passage, note that I probably should retitle this post and change “government” to just about “anyone.” My children go to Catholic schools and there are piles of things they learn there that are either misinformed, plain wrong, questionable, etc. I like that they are exposed to things that I think are […]
Posted in Education on May 9th, 2015
In yesterday’s news, our university announced the creation of another new institute/initiative, the Institute for Performing Arts. Note that one of the students depicted there is one of my very best students! So this institute seems like a really great idea. I am wondering how many initiatives and institutes our university has shut down over […]
Posted in Disingenuous, Education, ethical foundations on Oct 10th, 2014
Such a question is normally asked by me in an intermediate micro class to illustrate that basic economic tools can be useful for understanding the most pedestrian events of our everyday life. Indeed, I was all set to have my intro students grapple with this earth altering question as I wander into class today. But […]
