Author: Har DayalPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Our Educational Problem
Author: Har DayalMindstorms
Author: Seymour A PapertPublisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 154167510X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
In this revolutionary book, a renowned computer scientist explains the importance of teaching children the basics of computing and how it can prepare them to succeed in the ever-evolving tech world. Computers have completely changed the way we teach children. We have Mindstorms to thank for that. In this book, pioneering computer scientist Seymour Papert uses the invention of LOGO, the first child-friendly programming language, to make the case for the value of teaching children with computers. Papert argues that children are more than capable of mastering computers, and that teaching computational processes like de-bugging in the classroom can change the way we learn everything else. He also shows that schools saturated with technology can actually improve socialization and interaction among students and between students and teachers. Technology changes every day, but the basic ways that computers can help us learn remain. For thousands of teachers and parents who have sought creative ways to help children learn with computers, Mindstorms is their bible.
Teach Your Children Well
Author: Michael MaloneyPublisher:
ISBN: 9781881317067
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Teach Your Children Well offers a solution to a major education illiteracy and the risk of school failure. It outlines the reasons these solutions are ignored in a world growing ignorance and less competent graduates.
The Children: Some Educational Problems
Author: Alexander DarrochPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
This compelling work dives into the unrest that permeates modern education, offering fresh perspectives and solutions to prevailing problems. Darroch explores the true essence and process of education, shedding light on its ultimate purpose and the role of the state in its provision. From the cost of education to the medical examination and feeding of school children, each chapter unravels a different facet of the state's relationship with education. With a conclusive examination of the current educational landscape, this book inspires reflection and offers insights into the pressing challenges we face today.
Never Too Old to Get Rich
Author: Kerry E. HannonPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119547903
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Start a successful business mid-life When you think of someone launching a start-up, the image of a twenty-something techie probably springs to mind. However, Gen Xers and Baby Boomers are just as likely to start businesses and reinvent themselves later in life. Never Too Old to Get Rich is an exciting roadmap for anyone age 50+ looking to be their own boss and launch their dream business. This book provides up-to-date resources and guidance for launching a business when you're 50+. There are snappy profiles of more than a dozen successful older entrepreneurs, describing their inspirational journeys launching businesses and nonprofits, followed by Q&A conversations, and pull-out boxes containing action steps. The author walks you through her three-part fitness program: guidelines for becoming financially fit, physically fit, and spiritually fit, before delving more deeply into how would-be entrepreneurs over 50 can succeed. • Describes how you can find capital to start your own business • Offers encouraging stories of real people who have become their own bosses and succeeded as entrepreneurs • Written by PBS Next Avenue’s entrepreneur expert, Kerry Hannon • Teaches you how to start your own business Never Too Old to Get Rich is the ideal book for older readers looking to pursue new business ventures later in life.
The Schools Our Children Deserve
Author: Alfie KohnPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618083459
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Arguing against the tougher standards rhetoric that marks the current education debate, the author of No Contest and Punished by Rewards writes that such tactics squeeze the pleasure out of learning. Reprint.
The Case against Education
Author: Bryan CaplanPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691201439
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Why we need to stop wasting public funds on education Despite being immensely popular—and immensely lucrative—education is grossly overrated. Now with a new afterword by Bryan Caplan, this explosive book argues that the primary function of education is not to enhance students' skills but to signal the qualities of a good employee. Learn why students hunt for easy As only to forget most of what they learn after the final exam, why decades of growing access to education have not resulted in better jobs for average workers, how employers reward workers for costly schooling they rarely ever use, and why cutting education spending is the best remedy. Romantic notions about education being "good for the soul" must yield to careful research and common sense—The Case against Education points the way.
School Life
Author: Anti-Education
Author: Friedrich NietzschePublisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1590178947
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
AN NYRB Classics Original In 1869, at the age of twenty-four, the precociously brilliant Friedrich Nietzsche was appointed to a professorship of classical philology at the University of Basel. He seemed marked for a successful and conventional academic career. Then the philosophy of Schopenhauer and the music of Wagner transformed his ambitions. The genius of such thinkers and makers—the kind of genius that had emerged in ancient Greece—this alone was the touchstone for true understanding. But how was education to serve genius, especially in a modern society marked more and more by an unholy alliance between academic specialization, mass-market journalism, and the militarized state? Something more than sturdy scholarship was called for. A new way of teaching and questioning, a new philosophy . . . What that new way might be was the question Nietzsche broached in five vivid, popular public lectures in Basel in 1872. Anti-Education presents a provocative and timely reckoning with what remains one of the central challenges of the modern world.
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