Start saving for Norway
Observations regarding Norway,the prohibitive cost of consumables, and the first few days of proceedings related to the World Humanist Congress in Oslo. Also, I experience a Larry David moment, and am briefly mortified.
Elitism and the university
What are the goals of university educations, and therefore the point of universities existing at all? There is certainly more than one, but alongside goals such as social transformation, one of those goals is surely academic excellence – the sort that allows or encourages the best research, often informing the best policy, or the most creative innovation.
Mark your X in the box labelled “stereotype”
If your view is that everything the DA does is racist, or that everything the ANC does is symptomatic of a creeping nationalism, then the problem is not the party – it is you.
Is freedom of the press that important?
While we lament the fact that the press is perhaps not as free as we would prefer, we should not forget that for many of our citizens, merely being able to have this concern is a privilege they can only dream of.
Bad educations, bad science, bad students…
Regardless of the role religion may play in our dumbing-down, for whatever reason our students certainly arrive at university unprepared for “higher learning”.
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