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{ Daily Archives } Sunday, November 2008

Overreaction

Sarah Baxter, the Sunday Times’ Washington correspondent in today’s News Review section:
On a beautiful autumn day seven years ago, I stood below the burning towers of the World Trade Center in New York and felt the world spin. The late 20th century’s period of western peace and prosperity had drawn to an end and […]

2008 11 09 John Scholes Politics Comments (1)

Universities

I commented in an early post last year about the bizarre and damaging fashion that everyone should go to university. There is more to say.
There are two main reasons for education. One is to train people for work, the other is to enhance their lives. These are not always easy to distinguish. The basics, […]

2008 11 09 John Scholes Education Comments (0)