Curt Doolittle

Theme: Education

  • MUCH TROUBLE CAN I GET INTO WITH THIS POSTING? šŸ™‚ (I BET IT’S A LOT.) If Republi

    http://times247.com/articles/pew-republicans-better-informed-more-empatheticHOW MUCH TROUBLE CAN I GET INTO WITH THIS POSTING? šŸ™‚ (I BET IT’S A LOT.)

    If Republicans skew male, and Democrats skew female, and men accumulate more economic and political knowledge than women, and women have fewer and less diverse friends than men, then isn’t the fact that Republicans are better informed and more open minded than Democrats simply an artifact of the distribution of men and women between the parties?

    The classical liberal system was designed to create separate houses for different classes of males. It has not survived the addition of females to the electorate. We should not have eliminated the class division of houses, we should have added to it. Then we could compromise rather than conduct ideological warfare, class warfare, and gender warfare.

    And the results of these polls would be obvious.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-04-23 10:07:00 UTC

  • THE QUALITY OF THE PEOPLE NOT THE QUALITY OF THE SCHOOL –The Best Ideas Are Alw

    http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/19/test-scores-and-housing-costs/ITS THE QUALITY OF THE PEOPLE NOT THE QUALITY OF THE SCHOOL

    –The Best Ideas Are Always In The Comments–

    “the reality of the situation….is it’s the quality of the people who comprise the neighborhood that dictate the quality of the school. Being wealthy is a by-product of the quality of those people. The culture and values of the individual, family and neighborhood matter. The most successful ethnic group in America are Asian-Americans. Why? Confucian-based values, a strong emphasis on family, and a strong work ethic create the environment necessary to raise the next generation of successful individuals. The poor are a by-product of poor individual choices, broken families, and a lack of focus on what is truly important: education.”

    Now, lets understand that white, ashkenazi and east asian scores are superior in each area. But that we’re also less impulsive — calmer. Unfortunately, white IQ has declined in the aggregate since 1850 due to rapid breeding by the underclasses. Is that offensive? Maybe. But if you pursue equality with unequal people you’re just tilting at windmills. Lets not blame the schools for the quality of the students. The only blame the schools carry is tenured teachers that the principles can’t fire.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-04-20 08:21:00 UTC

  • SUMMER CLASSES AT HARVARD! Graduate seminar in writing. Harvard the worlds best

    SUMMER CLASSES AT HARVARD!

    Graduate seminar in writing. Harvard the worlds best summer program. Actually, it has the best continuing education program in the world as well. It sets the standard for how programs should be run.

    Anyway, I can’t wait. šŸ™‚ (And I’ll get the chance to have dinner with my wonderful daughter now and then too!)

    Source date (UTC): 2012-03-31 18:20:00 UTC

  • Do People With Mba’s Run More Successful Businesses? Why?

    It appears from the data that floats around the internet, that an MBA will help your career in a large company. It does not appear that an MBA (or any education for that matter) will help you as an entrepreneur.  Hard work, likability, the ability to sell ideas and persuade, and a little bit of money seem to matter the most.   I do believe that the books used in an MBA program will help a young CEO who already has a startup and who better wants to understand what capital will do for him.

    Most of the education any entrepreneur needs comes from mastery of the strengths and weaknesses of his industry, and deep knowledge of his customers, and the ability to accumulate customers by working harder for them than his competitors.  The most common problem I have found with new entrepreneurs is that they have very little competitive advantage, and are little more than also-rans. It’s very hard to sell something that’s ‘just as good as everything else’.

    https://www.quora.com/Do-people-with-MBAs-run-more-successful-businesses-Why

  • Do People With Mba’s Run More Successful Businesses? Why?

    It appears from the data that floats around the internet, that an MBA will help your career in a large company. It does not appear that an MBA (or any education for that matter) will help you as an entrepreneur.  Hard work, likability, the ability to sell ideas and persuade, and a little bit of money seem to matter the most.   I do believe that the books used in an MBA program will help a young CEO who already has a startup and who better wants to understand what capital will do for him.

    Most of the education any entrepreneur needs comes from mastery of the strengths and weaknesses of his industry, and deep knowledge of his customers, and the ability to accumulate customers by working harder for them than his competitors.  The most common problem I have found with new entrepreneurs is that they have very little competitive advantage, and are little more than also-rans. It’s very hard to sell something that’s ‘just as good as everything else’.

    https://www.quora.com/Do-people-with-MBAs-run-more-successful-businesses-Why

  • Why Do I Include Certain Authors In My Reading List And Not Others?

    Who is not included in my reading list and why? You might notice that I don’t include Steven Ozment and other great romantic historians. If you want to read them, then that’s fine. I agree with their rapture. On the other hand, I’m a POLITICAL ECONOMIST which means I care only about the necessary institutions needed to produce the greek and british miracles. It is an emotionless pursuit. And the romantics do not help me in that regard. I have the same problem with much of the conservative reading list produced by the National Review, which I view as, like that of Kirk, romantic and inspirational, but not helpful to an analytical intellectual looking to define institutions to create romantic attachments rather than assuming that those attachments create those institutions if such feelings could be instilled somehow. From my view this is simply illogical: it’s putting the cart before the horse. People feel romantic attachments to their institutions. But it is the institutions that created that sentiment. (Thanks to FredR for suggesting I include Victor Davis Hanson’s “The Other Greeks”.)

  • Why Do I Include Certain Authors In My Reading List And Not Others?

    Who is not included in my reading list and why? You might notice that I don’t include Steven Ozment and other great romantic historians. If you want to read them, then that’s fine. I agree with their rapture. On the other hand, I’m a POLITICAL ECONOMIST which means I care only about the necessary institutions needed to produce the greek and british miracles. It is an emotionless pursuit. And the romantics do not help me in that regard. I have the same problem with much of the conservative reading list produced by the National Review, which I view as, like that of Kirk, romantic and inspirational, but not helpful to an analytical intellectual looking to define institutions to create romantic attachments rather than assuming that those attachments create those institutions if such feelings could be instilled somehow. From my view this is simply illogical: it’s putting the cart before the horse. People feel romantic attachments to their institutions. But it is the institutions that created that sentiment. (Thanks to FredR for suggesting I include Victor Davis Hanson’s “The Other Greeks”.)

  • On Education Policy (UNDONE)

    I. A NEW MYTHOLOGY

    Neil Postmanā€™s proposed five new ‘gods’ or narratives, that may better serve american culture. Postman’s ideas are interesting in that there is nothing ‘American’ about them. They are the feminine values of the campfire. They fail to address what made the west a religion of rationalism, a high trust society that consistently embraced technology and became the master of the vicissitudes of nature rather than the victim of them. In keeping with the “balance of powers” I’ve proposed a competing masculine perspective. By teaching the two story arcs as a dynamic tension, or balance, we can accurately represent both the feminine need for community  and the masculine need for institutions that allow us to compete and invent, so that we may continue to transform the universe to suit our will, and fulfill our ‘destiny as heir to the divine’.  

    Our Shared Human Experience

    The Communal Feminine Universalist Underclass View

    The Miracle Of The West

    The Minority Tribal Masculine Heroic Aristocratic View

    1) The Spaceship Earth The story of the Earth as a ā€œvulnerable space capsuleā€ with humans as its stewards and caretakers1) Transform The Universe To Suit Our Will  – Man as god. Our desire is to master the hostile universe into a beautiful garden for human existence.
    2) The Fallen Angel The story that human beings make mistakes, but can get closer to the truth by learning from their errors and eliminating what is false2) Heroic Man Scarcity Minority Persistence Hubris Technology against the dark forces of time and ignorance
    3) The American Experiment The story of America as a grand experiment (a perpetual question mark, not a definitive period) ā€“ one in which students are invited to play an active part3)  The ‘Game Society’ As Scientific Search For Solutions The Balance Of Powers Constitutionalism and The Common Law The Market Meritocracy THE SECRET OF MANORIALISM THE GREEK EXPERIMENT THE ENGLISH EXPERIMENT THE AMERICAN EXPERIMENT THE EUROPEAN EXPERIMENT THE COMPETING TRADITIONS: Greek Rationalism And The Balance Of Powers Confucianism And Totalitarian Hierarchy Scriptural Monotheism And Theocracy Hinduism/Buddhism And Anarchy
    4) The Law of Diversity The story of how human culture has been enriched and strengthened through the inclusion of different cultures and their ideas4) The Pursuit of Excellence Society As Science Competition Innovation Meritocracy Identify And Learn From The Best
    5) The Word Weavers/The World Makers The story of how humans use language to give meaning to the surrounding world and, as a result, are then changed by their own creation5) The Calculators Reason, logic and Argument Numbers, Prices, The market as information system The Formula Makers

    II. FROM WRITTEN TO VERBAL  EDUCATION

      PROFESSIONALIZING TEACHING  

    III. ELIMINATING THE ARTIFICE OF CHILDHOOD

  • On Education Policy (UNDONE)

    I. A NEW MYTHOLOGY

    Neil Postmanā€™s proposed five new ‘gods’ or narratives, that may better serve american culture. Postman’s ideas are interesting in that there is nothing ‘American’ about them. They are the feminine values of the campfire. They fail to address what made the west a religion of rationalism, a high trust society that consistently embraced technology and became the master of the vicissitudes of nature rather than the victim of them. In keeping with the “balance of powers” I’ve proposed a competing masculine perspective. By teaching the two story arcs as a dynamic tension, or balance, we can accurately represent both the feminine need for community  and the masculine need for institutions that allow us to compete and invent, so that we may continue to transform the universe to suit our will, and fulfill our ‘destiny as heir to the divine’.  

    Our Shared Human Experience

    The Communal Feminine Universalist Underclass View

    The Miracle Of The West

    The Minority Tribal Masculine Heroic Aristocratic View

    1) The Spaceship Earth The story of the Earth as a ā€œvulnerable space capsuleā€ with humans as its stewards and caretakers1) Transform The Universe To Suit Our Will  – Man as god. Our desire is to master the hostile universe into a beautiful garden for human existence.
    2) The Fallen Angel The story that human beings make mistakes, but can get closer to the truth by learning from their errors and eliminating what is false2) Heroic Man Scarcity Minority Persistence Hubris Technology against the dark forces of time and ignorance
    3) The American Experiment The story of America as a grand experiment (a perpetual question mark, not a definitive period) ā€“ one in which students are invited to play an active part3)  The ‘Game Society’ As Scientific Search For Solutions The Balance Of Powers Constitutionalism and The Common Law The Market Meritocracy THE SECRET OF MANORIALISM THE GREEK EXPERIMENT THE ENGLISH EXPERIMENT THE AMERICAN EXPERIMENT THE EUROPEAN EXPERIMENT THE COMPETING TRADITIONS: Greek Rationalism And The Balance Of Powers Confucianism And Totalitarian Hierarchy Scriptural Monotheism And Theocracy Hinduism/Buddhism And Anarchy
    4) The Law of Diversity The story of how human culture has been enriched and strengthened through the inclusion of different cultures and their ideas4) The Pursuit of Excellence Society As Science Competition Innovation Meritocracy Identify And Learn From The Best
    5) The Word Weavers/The World Makers The story of how humans use language to give meaning to the surrounding world and, as a result, are then changed by their own creation5) The Calculators Reason, logic and Argument Numbers, Prices, The market as information system The Formula Makers

    II. FROM WRITTEN TO VERBAL  EDUCATION

      PROFESSIONALIZING TEACHING  

    III. ELIMINATING THE ARTIFICE OF CHILDHOOD

  • 42,000 WORDS AND COUNTING The Glossary of Political Economy on capitalismv3.com

    http://www.capitalismv3.com/menu/glossary/AT 42,000 WORDS AND COUNTING

    The Glossary of Political Economy on capitalismv3.com is up to 125 pages. I’ll guess it’s 70% complete. Unfortunately what’s left is the hard work.

    Building Propertarianism one brick at a time.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-03-11 17:38:00 UTC