Unmaking Sense

The controlling influences of social, religious and political practices potentially  enslave us to the things they teach as fact. If they also try to dissuade us from thinking, we are doubly disadvantaged. So if society makes us who we are, how do we change? If we abandon our society, do we lose ourselves? Pivotal moments, points and reconsiderations as keys to changes of mind.

Why process-driven education offers more long-term promise than outcome-based education.

We need both/and not either/or in education as in life.

A brief deviation into astronomy as we explore the geometry of the solstices and equinoxes.

Pursuing our passions and interests is the best way to acquire habits of lifelong learning.

We owe everything to society, but that doesn’t mean society has a right to control our lives. What we owe society most is that we become the best version we can of ourselves.

More nuanced discussion of why process is more important than outcome, travelling than arriving, enjoying the present than planning the future.

Why arguments against interest-driven education make unwarranted assumptions about what we are supposed to need to know.

A lament about changing platforms.

The first Podbean episode recorded while walking local country lanes.