Posted in Education, Rant on February 7, 2008 | No Comments »
Rate Your Students is one of a handful of sites that I visit regualrly. It’s basically a place where university professors can vent about the students that shit them. I read it because I want to teach at a university and because I’ve experienced some of these issues teaching high school students. One complaint that keeps [...]
Posted in Education, Evolution on August 3, 2007 | 1 Comment »
A lot of people don’t understand evolution and it never used to bother me too much. After all, people seem to function just fine without knowing the basics of any other scientific theory. For me, the problem is twofold: First, people who don’t understand evolution talk about it as if they do. Second, where evolution [...]
Posted in Education on July 25, 2007 | 2 Comments »
That’s what the State Parliament’s Social Development Committee is advocating to address the obesity ‘epidemic’. When I saw this on Sunrise yesterday morning (hey, I can’t be held accountable for anything I watch before coffee) I wasn’t sure what to make of it. I know that the media report on a lot of parliament’s crazier ideas that never seem [...]
Posted in Education on July 12, 2007 | No Comments »
Having been at uni for so long, I figured I’d write about that. I’ve been enrolled in degrees at each of the three unis in Adelaide and one thing I’ve noticed is that their strengths lie in different areas.
