Famed Bongo player Richard Feynman was also a highly acclaimed Theoretical Physicist and Nobel laureate.
Testing the Limits
THE ECONOMIST | Education Reform
The energy behind this attack on mediocrity is admirable, but contradictions remain.
Liz Coleman’s call to reinvent liberal arts education
TED Talk
Bennington president Liz Coleman delivers a call-to-arms for radical reform in higher education. Bucking the trend to push students toward increasingly narrow areas of study, she proposes a truly cross-disciplinary education — one that dynamically combines all areas of study to address the great problems of our day.
America’s Real Criminal Element: Lead
MOTHER JONES | By KEVIN DRUM
Neurological research is demonstrating that lead’s effects are even more appalling, more permanent, and appear at far lower levels than we ever thought. For starters, it turns out that childhood lead exposure at nearly any level can seriously and permanently reduce IQ.
Higher education: Not what it used to be
THE ECONOMIST
American universities represent declining value for money to their students. … A degree has always been considered the key to a good job. But rising fees and increasing student debt, combined with shrinking financial and educational returns, are undermining at least the perception that university is a good investment.
Chinese Education, for a Price
NEW YORK TIMES | By DAN LEVIN
Nearly everything has a price, parents and educators say, from school admissions and placement in top classes to leadership positions in Communist youth groups. Even front-row seats near the blackboard or a post as class monitor are up for sale.
