Bounced Around - Athletics. Tuscaloosa, Ala.
On a crisp fall morning three years ago, the engines on Iowa State University’s eight-seat private plane spun to life. A few minutes before takeoff, Fred Hoiberg, the head men’s basketball coach, and Elwyn McRoy, his new assistant, climbed aboard for a recruiting trip 400 miles away. For Mr. Hoiberg, a former Cyclones star and NBA executive, it was an ordinary call: out by 9, back by 6, home in time for dinner.
For Mr. When he arrived at Ames Municipal Airport that morning, he snapped a picture of the red-and-gold-striped Beechcraft King Air 200, which he later posted on Facebook. Just a decade before, he was coaching high-school basketball in Kansas, not far from the community college where he got his start as a player. On that early-October day in 2010, as the Iowa State plane lifted above the clouds, all signs were pointing up for Mr. The good times didn’t last. His slide may be extreme, but his profession is filled with people struggling to stay on their feet.
Mr. U. How to Edit Your Own Writing. What's the Most Effective Means of Education Today? - Lifehacker. Frankly, Stephens seems off his rocker.
His dismissive tone of traditional education makes it seem like no one should get an education at all. When he says, "Imagine if we started our own companies, our own projects and our own organizations", I question whether or not he really thinks self-education could have build all that modernity has yielded. Education requires that: 1) students have strong fundamentals in reading, writing, and math 2) students be resourceful in problem solving. Regardless of industry, reading, writing, and math, are all critically important.
The second aspect of education is resourcefulness. Traditional education has failed because it no longer provides the fundamentals. I lucked out with my public education and state university. We Can't Teach Students to Love Reading - The Chronicle Review. By Alan Jacobs While virtually anyone who wants to do so can train his or her brain to the habits of long-form reading, in any given culture, few people will want to.
And that's to be expected. Serious "deep attention" reading has always been and will always be a minority pursuit, a fact that has been obscured in the past half-century, especially in the United States, by the dramatic increase in the percentage of the population attending college, and by the idea (only about 150 years old) that modern literature in vernacular languages should be taught at the university level. At the beginning of the 20th century, perhaps 2 percent of Americans attended a university; now the number is closer to 70 percent (though only about 30 percent get bachelor's degrees). The extreme reader, to coin a phrase, is a rare bird indeed. Those are my tribe, but they are few. Perhaps it isn't anyone's fault. So what did those poor deluged people do?
Alan Jacobs is a professor of English at Wheaton College.