Why handwriting?
Communication in writing nowadays is almost exclusively done in type. Why, then, should anyone care about being able to write legibly?
Reading the manuscript
explanation
Science fiction and verb conjugations
Past, present and future are not enough
Science fiction writers imagine whole new universes and explore their possibilities, as we’ve mentioned before. Perhaps they need to think about the changes in language that go along with them.
The John Henry moment
Old technology triumphant
A mathematics teacher is not much like a nineteenth-century railroad worker–but there are parallels. Our consultant who tutors High School math and science continues to learn from it; sometimes, his students do also.
Smartphones by campfire light
An incongruity of technologies
One of our consultants has an interesting device for camping or possibly a disaster situation. On closer examination it appeared to us that it hadn’t been quite thought through. Then we examined it more closely still.
Science and social science
Differences among the PhDs
Methods and results differ among the various sciences. This comes from differences in their subject matter and is not always understood, even by scientists.
Classes of classes
What is the aim of school?
A recent comment on one of our posts raises the question of what teachers are trying to achieve in school. The answer varies.
It’s simpler than that
Teachers can know too much
High School chemistry rests on a base of sophisticated quantum mechanics. Fortunately, it’s not necessary to master the advanced subject in order to use its results.
Ways of learning and of avoiding it
Life is not a word problem
Our tutoring consultant continues to gain insights from his students.
The seasons are complicated
Interpreting French Oast
The complicated business of reading signs
Even simple daily tasks can involve very sophisticated thinking.