→ Read more[…]The gift of early insight into chess or math or music is often also accompanied by a growing obsession with those activities, simply because of the wonders of connection and invention that unfold in the young mind.
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Quote for the week 6th-12th of Jan ’08
[…] children should be taught not so much what to think as how to think. If, having been fairly and properly exposed to all the scientific evidence, they grow up and decide that the Bible is literally true or that the movements of the planets rule their lives, that is their privilege.
Best phrase I’ve read today
[…] motorcycle riders should be exempt from helmet laws as long as they agree to be organ donors.
Read the whole summary of Charles Wheelan’s favourite session, “Economics of Traffic Safety: Children, Teenagers and the Elderly”, from the AEA meeting this year. → Read more
Beware the Euronomics. Plus some further thoughts on the economics curricula in Romania and The Netherlands
Retain at least the conclusion of this excellent article (applying, unfortunately, well beyond just France and Germany, within EU or Europe in general), which draws attention to the enormous, though often neglected*, importance of (high) school economics education, with emphasis on the (very real) risks of learning absolute nonsense from state-sponsored economics courses.
→ Read more Quote for week 23rd-29th of Dec ’07
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You’re the last person I’m talking to, so you’ll probably get the best interview, darling. I don’t want to change the world. For me, happiness is the most important thing and if I’m happy, then it shows in my work.