Does School Keep Getting in the Way of Your Education?

Education, Featured, Issues, Recent — May 12, 2010 at 4:21 pm
Get Involved Outside the Classroom, Where Learning is Limitless by: Steven Benson With over 20,000 undergraduate students, it is very easy for one to get “lost in the crowd.” Walking through the Diag, students often see unfamiliar faces, an occurrence quite different from the typical high school experience. The University of Michigan prides itself on the sense of community present among students. Community...

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Does School Keep Getting in the Way of Your Education?

Does School Keep Getting in the Way of Your Education?

To paraphrase that famous line from the Wizard of Oz: Toto, we’re not in high school anymore!

Should Anthropologists be a Part of Military Operations?

Should Anthropologists be a Part of Military Operations?

To be blunt, we simply cannot jeopardize our military’s ability to target, smash, and destroy. Gun battles with insurgents should be about simple troop movement…

Does North Campus Suck?

Does North Campus Suck?

Not only is the bus ride a major pain, but North Campus itself is just an unsocial place. Looking for an exciting party on North? Well, you’re out of luck, because there are none.

Global Climate Change: Where to Next?

Global Climate Change: Where to Next?

…it seems that the United States government missed the day that it was supposed to learn one particularly important lesson: take responsibility for your actions.

Featured

Does School Keep Getting in the Way of Your Education?

Does School Keep Getting in the Way of Your Education?

To paraphrase that famous line from the Wizard of Oz: Toto, we’re not in high school anymore!

May 12, 2010 16:21

Porn

Should Porn be Legal?

Should Porn be Legal?

There is no opportunity for equality when pornography thrives in an undetected and un-debated social realm; sexual representations link female gender with a womyn’s sexuality

Feb 10, 2010 0:00

History

Historic Issues

Historic Issues

Here is a selection of past Consider issues.  It is wonderful to see what thought provoking topics have been – and continue to be – discussed at the University of Michigan.

 

 

 

 

 

Jan 5, 2010 18:54

The Conversationalist

Teaching Empathy

Teaching Empathy

Maia Szalavitz argues in a wonderful article in Time that we can and should activtely cultivate empathy in our children:
Increasingly, neuroscientists, psychologists and educators believe that bullying and other kinds of violence can indeed be reduced by encouraging empathy at an early age. Over the past decade, research in empathy — the ability to put [...]

Apr 19, 2010 16:25

Recent Articles

Does School Keep Getting in the Way of Your Education?

Does School Keep Getting in the Way of Your Education?

To paraphrase that famous line from the Wizard of Oz: Toto, we’re not in high school anymore!

May 12th, 2010 | Education, Featured, Issues, Recent | Read More

Teaching Empathy

Teaching Empathy

Maia Szalavitz argues in a wonderful article in Time that we can and should activtely cultivate empathy in our children:
Increasingly, neuroscientists, psychologists and educators believe that bullying and other kinds of violence can indeed be reduced by encouraging empathy at an early age. Over the past decade, research in empathy — the ability to put [...]

April 19th, 2010 | The Conversationalist | Read More

How the Nicest Guy in Tech Will Take Over the World

How the Nicest Guy in Tech Will Take Over the World

I had no idea, but it seems that Google CEO Eric Schmidt is a really nice guy.  That’s not the usual sort of description you get about a CEO, but evidently Schmidt is both a fairly good person and a very intellectual businessman:
Schmidt doesn’t hide his grand vision. When he speaks, he comes off as [...]

April 14th, 2010 | The Conversationalist | Read More

A New Chapter For Ted Deutch And Consider

A New Chapter For Ted Deutch And Consider

It seems almost fated that our the last post of the regular school year would be one on the past. But in a way, this is also on the future too. Ted Deutch, a Michigan alumn and former co-edit0r-in-chief of Consider was just elected to U.S. Congress in Florida’s 19th District. The current Consider staff [...]

April 14th, 2010 | The Conversationalist | Read More

Michigan Spends A Lot On Professors

Michigan Spends A Lot On Professors

I was meaning to get to this earlier today but Economix has a list of the top ten private, public, and liberal arts schools average full-time professor salaries and Michigan is fourth behind Berkeley (of course. Wah.) and before North Carolina (woot! Take that Tar-Heels!). But keep one thing in mind: the University may not [...]

April 13th, 2010 | The Conversationalist | Read More

South Nevadans Care More About Strippers Than Pizza?

South Nevadans Care More About Strippers Than Pizza?

A while back I posted a similar map comparing bars to grocery store. This one compares where pizza stores, gun stores, and strip clubs are most common. It’s a pretty unremarkable map EXCEPT in southern Nevada. Catch that? That’s right, there are more strip clubs than pizza. I would usually suppose that wherever there are [...]

April 13th, 2010 | The Conversationalist | Read More