While reading this chapter in my Educational Psychology book, I found yet another example of why Robert Sternberg is not the brightest man in the world. In this section, he spent a good amount of time talking about language development and verbal competency. Then, he comes up with this stunningly obfuscating and self-referencing definition for …
March 2007 archive
Mar 29 2007
“The emotional miseducation of boys”
I’ve again started reading Kindlon & Thompson’s Raising Cain, and just within the first few pages have gotten more out of it than any previous read-through. One of the truly wonderful things about this particular book is just that; one gains new insight and recognises new things each time one reads it. Woven through its …
Mar 28 2007
Homework and the like
Today I had the incredibly far-fetched goal of completing all the assignments that I have due within the next three weeks. This was an outlandish aspiration considering it is nearing the end of the term, and I, consequently, have a vast amount of large projects to finish (or start, depending on the class). While I’ve …