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Can I please take all my classes online?

Dec 08 2011 Published by under Opinion

As I prepare to study for the subject that has been the bane of my existence for the past two years (by writing this blog post instead) I can’t help but draw a comparison between how classes in my real world university are going and the classes I’m taking as part of Stanford’s online experiment [...]

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I suck at [formal] education or does education suck?

Oct 04 2011 Published by under Essays

There is probably a trend where I make a post about education every year around October, January and June. It corresponds nicely with the school year and how exams are laid out. But this time the post is going to be different: this is not a rant this does not propose a solution this is [...]

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Freelance teaching is great, or why C/Java/etc. are horrible teaching tools

May 03 2010 Published by under Uncategorized

Image via Wikipedia Seriously why aren’t there more teachers in the world? What a bunch of charlatans. But I’m getting ahead of myself in this story. Last week I was doing a lot of freelancing as a teacher and instructor in the dark arts of programming. There was this kid who desperately wanted to get [...]

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The bliss and curse of mindsets

Mar 15 2010 Published by under Uncategorized

Image via Wikipedia Have you ever noticed how sometimes a difficult task suddenly becomes childplay? Incredibly easy? Painfully simplistic? This sometimes happens to me and it’s a phenomena so awesome I just had to have a ponder about it. Just why the fuck does that happen? Personally I notice this effect mostly when I’m studying [...]

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The kind of professor we can all but hope to meet some day

Jan 11 2010 Published by under Inspiration

Last night I watched a bloody amazing video of a university professor who was just oozing awesome. Seriously, this guy is all kinds of cool and I would love to someday have a professor that structures his lectures and classes like this guy does. Now watch the video, I’m not here to blab, I’m here [...]

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