Does School Keep Getting in the Way of Your Education?
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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!
Porn
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
History
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.
The Conversationalist
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 [...]
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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 MoreTeaching 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 MoreMichigan 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 MoreSouth 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 [...]
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Does School Keep Getting in the Way of Your Education?
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Teaching Empathy
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How the Nicest Guy in Tech Will Take Over the World
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A New Chapter For Ted Deutch And Consider
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Michigan Spends A Lot On Professors
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