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Platform. A Philosophy for Living on Earth: Essays on Ayn Rand and Objecti. My main project as a writer is a series of six books about philosophers on happiness (The Tao of Roark and Letters on Happiness are the first two, with books on Nietzsche, Thoreau, Aristotle, and Lao Tzu to follow).

A Philosophy for Living on Earth: Essays on Ayn Rand and Objecti

I have also written a dictionary of philosophy, a book of poems, numerous essays, and various translations from Greek, Latin, and German (not counting my technical publications). I have made all of these works available in the public domain, and have also started to publish them in paperback and ebook formats. Further information is available at the links below. Wired 2.07: Learning by Doing: Don't dissect the frog, buil. Learning by Doing: Don't dissect the frog, build it By Nicholas Negroponte I'm always amazed when I read about how badly young Americans are educated, not because such statements are necessarily untrue, but because most authors and critics go on to compare our children with those of France, Korea, or Japan, whose brains have been stuffed with thousands of facts.

Wired 2.07: Learning by Doing: Don't dissect the frog, buil

Most American children do not know the difference between the Baltics and the Balkans, or who the Visigoths were, or when Louis XIV lived.