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      • Seeking a fix for the great maths debacle of the West.
        08/27/06
        Vladimir I Arnold – Russian mathematician of some stature - makes two points forcibly:
        1 We all need mathematical ideas in everything we do.
        2 Western schools are failing to reach enough pupils.

        For details, and hopefully suggestions, we must wait for the publication by Sprin

      • En route to national education triumph, I believe
        08/27/06
        Well done, Blair government, for

        A minister of education with independence, ability, classroom experience, teeth and funding (Adonis in the upper house)
        Teach first program, top rate teacher stream
        Specialiost schools so kids can shine
        Quality PE
        Reading hour
        Clas

      • Earth need not flatten as we age.
        08/27/06
        Met recently a couple of self-opined failures: people about to die who questioned they had got it right for their kids.
        Not sure they are right: some of the kids had got it wrong in ways yes, but their own grandkids' kids were still tabulas rasas. The question to ask is are the new parents

      • A new name for Hobsbawm’s short century 1918 to 1992: The Age of Isms
        08/03/06
        From the 1918 ‘Peace’ of Versailles to the 1992 ‘Peace’ of Paris, we experimented with capitalism, fascism and communism. Only one survives, and that is rent with its own bitter fruits. In philosophy, we started with the iron in the soul of nihilism and its anarchy, then logical positivism and post-

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