Number of words: 143 Technology makes for easier persuasion and nudging — what B.J. Fogg at Stanford calls persuasive technology — and makes it far more potent. So, the British government’s Central Office of Information, they’ve said, “Look we’ve tried advertising with seatbelts for years. It didn’t really work. And so, we made it illegal … Read more
Number of words: 177 “Imagine there’s a device that costs about 50p per household, per year, and if you install it in your house, it decreases the chance of a house fire by 30 percent.” And everybody goes, “That’s an absolutely brilliant idea. I want to buy one of those. And, actually, I think the … Read more
Number of words: 1,693 Saudi Arabia has instigated two oil price wars in the last decade and has lost both. Given its apparent inability to learn from its mistakes it may well instigate another one but it will lose that as well. In the process, it has created a political and economic strait-jacket for itself … Read more
Number of words: 517 What went wrong? In the old days–six years ago- the kids got along with the system. (Would they now, since we have legislated against safety valves?) The kids are different now. Upon reflection, they too come up with the word deprived. If more kids can’t or won’t go along with us, … Read more
Number of words: 389 Fathers were not a thing commonly possessed by members of The Tribe, but even that’s not so outright as it might appear. I know it’s a platitude about what all the interpretations call the matriarchal Negro society or culture. For one thing, it’s not unique in that respect, and for another … Read more
Number of words: 1,120 I saw from my schedule that I taught five periods to four different groups– a seventh-grade B class, which I had twice, an eighth-grade B class, a ninthgrade D class, and a seventh-grade H class. Nothing had been mentioned in the meeting about a system of classification involving A’s and B’s, … Read more
Number of words: 650 On that afternoon it was really made easy by Miss Bentley, the viceprincipal. Miss Bentley offered us the example of the Army. The Army, she submitted, was an organization of people given certain tasks to perform. So was a school. The tasks were vital. Perhaps, she grinned, those of us old … Read more
Number of words: 115 This is why I write down whatever circumstances and events I clearly remember, in such detail as I remember, including cause, effect, and consequence if possible, hopefully without extravagance of any sort. But also, to relate only what I remember. I wouldn’t consider, for instance, going back to school records to … Read more
Number of words: 754 In an era of technology and easily accessible information, our schools still expect from us to know everything from the books, without considering whether this is going to be what we will actually need in our professional development. How many times have you wondered if you were going to need subjects … Read more
Number of words: 560 Remember Parkinson’s Law? It is the one that says ‘work expands to fill the time available for its completion.’ You’ve probably heard it before. There is another lesser-known law from Parkinson that we should all be aware of. A law that’s even more relevant in a world filled with back-to-back meetings. … Read more
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