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Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Video: Changing Education Paradigms

I'm not sure about the conclusions or the implications of this but it seems to contain the seeds of a very interesting conversation about the purpose of education, practicality, and social evolution.

Simply put our educational system is out of date and we are not capitalizing on some of our most important capacities.

I personally feel that "divergent thinking", while essential to philosophy, is not encouraged enough. For myself, once an essay topic/problem is identified for a class I run through at least thirty arguments that actually reach paper. After that I hone one of them. If what this video implies was implemented would you have better ideas or just more? What do you think?

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Saturday, June 11, 2011

Video: Does Philosophy Still Matter? | The New School

This is a very interesting video on a panel of philosophers talking about the future of philosophy and the problems of academia. It's a long video but its pretty interesting. Discussion really starts at 8:50.