Posted on 12/30/2007 1:02:43 AM PST by Aristotelian
I'm still trying to understand cubic zirconium.
Rochester's only 65 miles away but it would be a real hardship to try and commute there evenings after work in Buffalo and there's no degree offered locally that can match RIT's. Exciting times we live in.
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This will be a boon for homeschoolers.
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If I may also suggest
The Teaching Company
http://www.teach12.com/teach12.asp?ref=fromSecure
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I met Dr. Strang when he visited UT. His lecture on applied mathematics was great. After the talk he signed my copy of his textbook. When I teach Linear Algebra, I mimic his approach to the subject. He can make difficult mathematics easy to understand. You are correct, he is a great teacher.
It only took me 3 tries to get through linear algebra - mostly because of a friendly instructor. During those 3 quarters I aced the third quarter of calculus and the first quarter of differential equations. Later I aced something they called modern algebra that was actually more of a topology class.
My brain just doesn’t work well in more than 3 dimensions.
Just downloaded their Chemistry videos. Kids are going to start that next week. What a great find.
I'll second that. I'm a major fan of the Teaching Company. Outstanding lecturers and courses and they're constantly adding more. They've provided the education I didn't get in college.
This is a fantastic development.
Degrees mean less and less anyway.
I find this an attractive scenario as long as the destructive forms that libertarianism (Classical Liberalism) can take are managed through Christian ethics and faith.
I agree ... if you're talking about the small "l" libertarianism of the Founders / Framers
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According to Intrade, the winner of the December 12th GOP debate was... Duncan Hunter.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1938773/posts
Why the smart money is on Duncan Hunter
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1926032/posts
In this poll Hunter is up 3% and even with Paul and Thompson.
http://www.wxyz.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=3481ef60-8195-46a9-af04-b87b907bcfdd
Deja vu. I’m currently listening to some lectures on iTunesU.
The only thing missing is for a university to go ahead and give college credit for other universities online classes taught via podcasting, youtube, etc.
Give it a few years. Universities already charge far too much for the piece of paper. The market is going to come up with an alternative if it’s allowed to do so.
ALSO these courses are a potential resource for home educators! Why pay for an AP class when you can take the actual college course for free, then take the AP exam and test out of it?
“This suggests that libertarian conservatism will overtake progressive liberalism as the political philosophy of choice.”
More than likely. Not entirely a good thing in my view, but I think it’s where things are headed in the long term.
(And before I get myself into an unwanted debate with the various FR libertarians, let’s just say that I find the more libertine aspects of the philosophy to be problematic.)
“This suggests that libertarian conservatism will overtake progressive liberalism as the political philosophy of choice.”
I hope you are right.
Most conservatives are of the big-gov’t school of thought. Instead of a liberal coercive gov’t they want a conservative coercive gov’t.
Freedom is hard. It requires setting up realistic boundaries between individuals and giving up the desire to control others or take something from someone else. Few people these days have a vision for liberty.
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