Thursday, December 1, 2011

How to Dispel Your Illusions

A book review of "Thinking, Fast and Slow, author -Daniel Kahneman " written by Freeman Dyson



Cognitive illusions are the main theme of his book. A cognitive illusion is a false belief that we intuitively accept as true. The illusion of validity is a false belief in the reliability of our own judgment.


Saturday, November 19, 2011

LA Review of Books: The Educational Lottery by Steven Brint

On the four kinds of heretics attacking the gospel of education. "In short, we will need to turn our backs on assumptions of our most fervent boosters of universal higher education: that access alone is the primary purpose, and that when students and teachers are co-present, education occurs. The challenge will be to reweave the uneven and tattered undergraduate experience in more durable and vivid patterns."