Teacher. Education, classics and linguistics...and music, football, chess and politics occasionally. Also found at https://xitter.cf/t.co/OZSplDIODs.
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Excellent summary by @daisychristo of the basic purpose of a universal secular education system. Of course it goes beyond this too, but this is the core of it.
CL: Really tasty guitar stuff. #leoamuedo youtube.com/watch?v=y3XH5wuk…
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Terrible biased reporting from @MeganGorrey at @smh.
They give a megaphone to the defenders of privilege and inequality and tiny paragraphs to the majority of Sydneysiders who want a solution to the affordability crisis.
smh.com.au/national/nsw/a-sy…
Re the appalling Helen Haines attack, and the surge of barrow-pusher opportunism that has followed:
Sometimes a random nutter is just a random nutter. Indications suggest this was the case here.
Social media is not to blame for everything.
CL: Don't even try to work out the time signature, just enjoy four-and-a-half minutes of crazy Euro-fusion. youtube.com/watch?v=1DGvRRY6…
Michael Salter retweeted
The sense of satisfaction that comes from knowing things well and being able to use that knowledge effectively is not something AI is ever likely to offer.
So there’s a goal for education.
Current Listening: an early case of East meets West, done with style and variety by the great #gustavholst. youtube.com/watch?v=2xpZs0j2…
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Live streaming an execution is utterly barbaric regardless of your views on the death penalty.
Young people, mostly men, will watch this footage, like moths to a flame their curiosity will get the better of them.
It does really feel like we are going backwards.
Another great blog post by @daisychristo. What she says here about the intellectual atmosphere in Ed circles 10-15 years ago is applicable to Australia as well - particularly in terms of the sniffy dismissal of explicit teaching by the professoriat. substack.nomoremarking.com/p…
CL: The great #keithjarrett wrote some great contemporary classical stuff in addition to his peerless work in jazz. m.youtube.com/watch?v=OhaVlv…
Michael Salter retweeted
Hey man, yeah I can't make it into work today, my car's Parthenon just blew up
Wonderful to see how the rise of AI has presented hardened edubullshitters with yet another opportunity to dredge out all the time-honoured clichés, just adding "something algorithm something". This is a prime specimen of the genre. peterhyman21.substack.com/p/…
CL: #garyburton breezing through a tasty samba with help from a young #julianlage, among others. youtube.com/watch?v=iv6u0n8M…
Happy 50th Birthday to one of the very greatest TV series of all time.
Derek Jacobi as Claudius, George Baker as Tiberius, the always OTT Brian Blessed as Augustus, and above all the magnificent Sian Phillips as Livia - performances for the ages.
