José Mota on March 28th, 2008

Universal education through schooling is not feasible. It would be no more feasible if it were attempted by means of alternative institutions built on the style of present schools. Neither new attitudes of teachers toward their pupils nor the proliferation of educational hardware or software (in classroom or bedroom), nor finally the attempt to expand [...]

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José Mota on March 28th, 2008

Significant attainments become lost in the mass of the inconsequential Vannevar Bush wrote this in his famous 1945 essay, As we may think, where he talks about the Memex (or memory extender), the source in which much of the way we organize or conceptualize knowledge today is said to be inspired (hypertext, Internet, networked knowledge) [...]

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José Mota on March 26th, 2008

What examples do we, parents and teachers, give our children and students? What kind of role model are we?

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