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Nina Padolf: Labels Do Not Define You

For first grade, I had to take a bus to a school designed for children with disabilities. I no longer attended my neighborhood school, instead, I was placed in a room with all the boys.

February 28, 2024 · 8 Comments

Cristina Robinson, et al: Complex birdsongs help biologists piece together the evolution of lifelong learning

Our human ability to learn language slows down as we get older, but scientists are not sure how or why this happens. An unexpected way to understand this learning process might come from listening to birds sing.

September 13, 2020 · 3 Comments

Philip F. Clark: Learning

Be a man, he said.
And so I’ve tried.
Fight like a man, he said
I’ve loved men like a man,
instead.

August 21, 2018 · Leave a comment

Noam Chomsky: On the Love of Teaching

We certainly want people, both faculty and students, to be engaged in activity that’s satisfying, enjoyable, challenging, exciting–and I don’t really think that’s hard. Even young children are creative, inquisitive, … Continue reading

October 8, 2014 · 5 Comments

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