As I read Prof. Susan Blum’s new book, I Love Learning; I Hate School, I sprained my neck from nodding in vigorous agreement. The book casts an anthropological lens on education in general and higher ...

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I was a kid who thrived on the positive reinforcement of being an “A” student; to this day, I can count on my hands the number of “bad grades” I received during my K-12 education. There was the “D” on ...

When I started my first degree fresh out of high school, I was flooded with advice about what to study and what career path to follow. The most significant piece of guidance was from one of my ...

The internet is an ocean of learning resources that can educate you on virtually any topic under the sun. That was perhaps the earliest pitch for the internet — you could learn about anything, from ...

Every parent can probably remember the moment that COVID-19 stay-at-home orders hit. As a school psychologist and parent, I remember (naively) thinking it would be short-term—and maybe even fun to ...

“All human beings by nature desire to know,” declares Aristotle in his philosophical treatise, Metaphysics. From the beginning of time, the desire to know, to learn and to grow seems embedded in the ...