We can't all be great writers, but we can be better writers. This advice is for everyone. And I put particular importance on number 3.

"Atul Gawande gave the commencement speech at Stanford’s School of Medicine last week. Here is what he told the graduating class." On the need for building interconnected systems of care in medicine, rather than a hodgepodge of specialists not communicating with each other.

Is it?

There are two problems with this piece that I have noticed right off the bat and later would like to comment on. One, he states that no research has actually shown that going for better teachers makes a difference, but that's not true (see the Economist article I linked to earlier regarding TFA's study etc.). I think the phrasing is ambiguous anyway, but there's a straw man here. Two, he seems to imply that bettering teachers is a quixotic goal, but isn't "bettering America" just as ambitious? He is essentially suggesting that we wage a war on poverty to get our children better educational environments. I don't disagree, but I think that finding top-notch teachers to bridge the gap while we fix that problem for the next fifty years is a good idea.

On the effectiveness of teachers.

How a school like Yale fails to teach a person how to want to think for themselves and be true intellectuals, how to interact with people from other walks of life.

Stressing the importance of actively engaging everything that you take in and the way that you take it in, so you can synthesize and maximize and!

Spaced repetition! "Designed to help you remember facts (such as words and phrases in a foreign language) as easily, quickly and efficiently as possible. To do this, it tracks how well you remember each fact, and uses that info to schedule review times.

Those who get to take this course are lucky indeed.

Extensive, exhaustive, informative.

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"In 1969 the US Senate had a hearing on funding the newly developed Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The proposed endowment was $20 million, but President Nixon wanted it cut in half because of the spending going on in the Vietnam War."

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"This site contains an ever-growing set of study guides and tutorials for both serious students and casual enthusiasts of the language of the sagas. I add new lessons periodically."

"With little mathematics, the text explores the most fascinating parts of mechanics, thermodynamics, special and general relativity, electrodynamics, quantum theory and modern attempts at unification."

"The MIT Media Lab is launching a new research initiative to develop a $100 laptop—a technology that could revolutionize how we educate the world's children."

"10,000 entry dictionary for beginning/intermediate students."

From the Capital Community College Foundation.

Repetition algorithms for learning, using paper systems.

Very handy.

"The Japanese name literally means Kansai Foreign Language University, which explains the school's focus on language studies, including a popular Asian Studies program for foreign students."

Fighting weak and religion-infused education.

"Computer people are fine human beings, but they do a lot of harm in the ways they 'help' other people with their computer problems."

"Welcome students ... I trust you will keep this site's name and purpose confidential."

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