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We begin to suspect that the Sixties radicals erred on the side of generosity when they declaimed "Don't trust anyone over thirty!" Mounting evidence suggests that by the time the average citizen anywhere gets out of school, his or her mind has suffered severe and often irreparable damage. The situation may not be entirely hopeless, however; if, as Bob Dylan advises, "he not busy being born is busy dying," then you can rebirth yourself by "feeding your head." Hence we turn our attention to education, via the links below.
  • The New Eyes Project
    Wearing different hats, the Café's Executive Director, A. D. Coleman, and its webmaster, John R. Alley, have initiated The New Eyes Project, a resource for K-12 photography education. "Want to effect social change with a camera?" asks Willis Hartshorn of the International Center for Photography. "Give a kid a camera."

    UNESCO Education
    The Education section of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) provides information about the state of education worldwide. In English, Spanish, and French.

  • U.S. Dept. of Education
    They're from the government, and they're here to help. Which explains in part why U.S. students grow dumber by the minute, why our schools are falling down around our children's ears, why rural Texas school boards dictate the content of textbooks nationwide, and so many other matters of pedagogical concern.

    The Complete Bushisms
    He's from the government, and he's here to help. Which explains many things. Jacob Weisberg's definitive collection of the malapropisms and garbled syntax of our duly appointed Pres. Chauncey Gardiner tells you more than you want to know about the state of the union. A Yale and Harvard education is a terrible thing to waste on a mind like this.

    IQtest.com
    Here you can learn something about the history of this controversial method of evaluating intelligence, and take a test to find out your own "intelligence quotient."

  • Howard Gardner/Multiple Intelligences
    Though Ye Executive Director scored high on his IQ test as a child, he has since come to favor Howard Gardner's 1983 theory of multiple intelligences. This section of the Informal Education (INFED) site provides an estensive exploration of Gradner's concept and its ramifications.


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