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He was a wonderful educator, and he always told us to question assumptions. “There’s an assumption,” he said, “that schools are for students’ learning. Well, why aren’t they just as much for teachers’ learning?”

The unanimous consent agreement, the key device by which Lyndon Johnson was changing the fundamental character of the Senate, was, in Doris Kearns Goodwin’s words, “a natural extension of his personality. Because he himself felt uncomfortable in larger groups and formal debate, he gradually shifted senatorial and public attention away from the floo

Bryan Caplan has proposed a national “Voter Achievement Exam.” Each year (or maybe before an election) the government offers a voluntary test which covers basic political information and basic social scientific matters. Citizens who take the exam get a cash prize, pays a thousand dollars for getting 90–100 percent of the questions right, five hundr

No dictating.

If you have a Ph.D. and you enter most universities and colleges, they assume you know how to teach and so on. We don't assume that. We have a training program. We have an evaluation program; we have feedback on this, so we're constantly evaluating—almost month by month—the quality of what we're doing.

Jusqu’à la fin de sa vie, il a encouragé ses étudiants à utiliser la pensée latérale, à élargir leur expérience et à forger leur propre voie pour trouver une qualité d’appariement. « J’essaie de dire aux étudiants : “Ne devenez pas un clone de votre directeur de recherche. Emmenez vos compétences quelque part où on ne fait pas les mêmes choses. Emm

The founders of Heterodox Academy, in the BBS paper, specifically recognized Merton’s 1942 and 1973 papers, in which he established norms for the scientific community known by the acronym CUDOS: “An ideologically balanced science that routinely resorted to adversarial collaborations to resolve empirical disputes would bear a striking resemblance to