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Why smart people say stupid things: a response to Jack Ma

Jan 24, 2019 | Category: Featured

In case you're unaware, I've just published a book that explains the role of knowledge in thought. Rather than rehash the arguments in depth (there are a series of chapter summaries here) suffice it t...

#knowledge #Jack Ma

If not knowledge, what?

Jul 14, 2017 | Category: Featured

knowledge /ˈnɒlɪdʒ/ noun facts, information, and skills acquired through experience or education; the theoretical or practical understanding of a subject. "a thirst for knowledge" awareness...

#knowledge #Aristotle

Everyone values critical thinking, don't they?

May 02, 2017 | Category: Featured

NOW, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning ani...

#Sugata Mitra #knowledge #Aristotle #E.D. Hirsch Jr #Michael Polanyi

A decreased focus on facts & knowledge won't help either

Sep 21, 2015 | Category: Featured

Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another. - Joseph Addison The TES reports today that “A leading independent school headmaster has warned that the greater focus...

#knowledge #TES #21st Century Learning

Chicken or egg? Thoughts about thinking

Apr 24, 2015 | Category: Featured

Which comes first? The chicken of knowledge or the egg of thinking?Over the past few years I have been advocating the view that thinking is a very shallow experience without knowledge. It seems self-e...

#knowledge #thinking

Some dichotomies are real: the 'and/or debate'

Dec 06, 2013 | Category: Featured

I get quite cross when I hear people who really should know better dismissing the knowledge/skills debate as a “mindless dichotomy". It’s not. The ideological opposition between proponents of these vi...

#knowledge #skills #Angela Duckworth #resilience #Stephen Tiernay

Knowledge or skills?

Sep 11, 2011 | Category: Featured

Skills, knowledge, who cares? I'm a huge fan of the implementation of Personal Learning and Thinking Skills as part of the English National Curriculum and feel confused and concerned about the curren...

#Cristina Milos #Gove #knowledge #skills