How the Internet Ruined the Teaching of Literature
Oct 22, 2012 by David Clemens |
Professor Clemens gives up his Literature class because students no longer relate to a non-Internet medium.
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What STEM Can’t Do
Sep 22, 2012 by David Clemens |
A story of pets and furry friends exemplifies how a science and math core overlooks a large portion of the human experience.
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Mumford and Sons: God, Literature, and Rock and Roll
Sep 10, 2012 by David Clemens |
A deeper look at the lyrics of popular band Mumford and Sons reveals influences of Steinbeck and explorations of the 21st century male experience and his spiritual yearnings.
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Elvis vs. Julia: A Lesson from the Liberal Arts
Jul 17, 2012 by David Clemens |
We would desire a free life all the more if we really grasped what the liberal arts has to teach.
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“Accelerated Learning”: Bullet Train to Success or Oxymoron?
Jun 27, 2012 by David Clemens |
Why are colleges so deeply invested in doing what is clearly not college?
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Higher Education and the Perfect Data Storm
May 09, 2012 by David Clemens |
To understand what's really going on at our colleges and universities, we need to look beyond data, writes David Clemens.
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The Vocabulary of Virtue
Feb 21, 2012 by David Clemens |
You can’t end racism by practicing racism, even when you pretend it is virtuous.
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California Dreamin’
Feb 14, 2012 by David Clemens |
David Clemens laments the latest announcement from California's commnuity college system.
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Colleges’ Lost Love of Film
Sep 26, 2011 by David Clemens |
Colleges and universities shortchange students by "academicizing" film rather than appreciating the way it illuminates our humanness.
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Disrupting the Textbook Machine
Sep 02, 2011 by David Clemens |
The higher education bubble was inflated by various pumps and gases: expensive but useless degrees, an ideological straitjacket, grade inflation, administrative bloat, and proliferating programs, centers, and offices of enigmatic,… Continue Reading | 10 Comments >
Higher Ed, or Building Clockwork Oranges?
Jul 08, 2011 by David Clemens |
For Father’s Day, my daughter Kate sent me a t-shirt featuring David Pelham’s dust jacket of Anthony Burgess’s novel A Clockwork Orange (Penguin, 1962). Director Stanley Kubrick turned Burgess’s… Continue Reading | 3 Comments >
The Real Purpose of Education
Jul 06, 2011 by David Clemens |
Good teaching should result “in a lighting of those lamps in the mind and in the heart that shall eventually show the Way, the Truth, and the Life.”
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The Dangerous Mr. Khan
Jun 07, 2011 by David Clemens |
Khan Academy's video lectures may work for teaching math and science, but history gets short-changed in favor of quick information transfer and a too-zoomed-out big picture view.
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YouTube U
May 12, 2011 by David Clemens |
At a recent Liberty Fund Socratic Seminar on “Education and Liberty in the Digital Age,” the conferees considered whether the Internet cum computer constitute “disruptive technology” that will… Continue Reading | 12 Comments >
Betrayed by Higher Ed…Again
Apr 08, 2011 by David Clemens |
My post “Betrayed by Higher Ed” has occasioned so many comments and emails that I want to offer a group response.
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