For a long time I have been watching the movement known as Creationism as they have attempted to push aside the teaching of evolution in the schools. In its place, they would teach something called “creationism” which started out once upon a time as the creation story found in the book of [...]
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As part of my day job at Henley-Putnam University I spend a lot of time on accreditation issues. I was deeply involved in working to secure both state approval from the California Bureau of Private, Postsecondary and Vocational Education (BPPVE) and national accreditation from the Distance Education and Training Council (DETC). So I [...] Most discussions of ideas eventually invoke the metaphor of the “marketplace of ideasâ€. I’ve always assumed this alludes to the market square of ancient Athens—the Agora—where some of the greatest minds of antiquity thrashed out the issues and ideas of the day. It is one of our better metaphors, in my opinion, because [...] Since we talked about expertise as an amateur, it’s only fitting that we take a look at the flip side of the non-academic, non-corporate intellectual: the genuine, dyed-in-the-wool, crackpot. They are not Guerrilla Scholars, nor are they true amateur scholars or scientists. Amateurish, yes. But their work seems to feed a diseased mind [...] |
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