A quotation from Samuel Johnson

Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
Essay (1750-03-24), The Rambler, No. 2

More about this quote: wist.info/johnson-samuel/20042…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #samueljohnson #advice #awareness #counsel #education #error #information #mistake #reminder #teaching #willfulignorance

#Texas #State Board of #Education votes to require millions of #students to study #Bible stories

The Texas State Board of Education has approved a proposal that will establish lists of required reading – including biblical stories & Bible verses — for its #K12 English & literature curriculum.

#law #US #Constitution #SeparationOfChurchAndState #indoctrination #NewApostolicReformation
https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/26/us/texas-schools-bible-curriculum-vote

A quotation from Cicero

MARCUS: As a field, though fertile, cannot yield a harvest without cultivation, no more can the mind without learning.
 
[Ut ager quamvis fertilis sine cultura fructuosus esse non potest, sic sine doctrina animus.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
Tusculan Disputations [Tusculanae Disputationes], Book 2, ch. 5 (2.5) / sec. 13 (2.13) (45 BC) [tr. Peabody (1886)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…

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the best part of building an online encyclopedia for multimedia and educational games is acquiring the physical media. after 10+ years of hunting, finally received an affordable copy of Oceans - arguably one of the best educational multimedia experiences MS’s edutainment division produced.

it came with some adorable stickers that have the best utopian scholastic styling and i can’t wait to scan it all in for the https://cd-rom.ca encartapedia!

#digiPres #softwarePreservation #multimedia #cdrom #utopianScholastic #education

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A boxed copy of Microsoft Oceans: Explore the Mysterious World of the Deep. It has a giant squid on the front with a school of fish in the background. In front of the box are six stickers for other MS educational products: Dogs, Ancient Lands, Dinosaurs, Dangerous Creatures, Musical Instruments and Oceans.

A quotation from Montaigne

For this reason, mixing with men is wonderfully useful, and visiting foreign countries […] to bring back knowledge of the characters and ways of those nations, and to rub and polish our brains by contact with those of others.
 
[A cette cause le commerce des hommes y est merveilleusement propre, & la visite des pays estrangers […] pour en rapporter principalement les humeurs de ces nations & leurs façons : & pour frotter & limer nostre cervelle contre celle d’autruy.]

Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
Essays, Book 1, ch. 25 (1.25), “Of the Education of Children [De l’institution des enfans]” (1579) [tr. Frame (1943), ch. 26]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montaigne #micheldemontaigne #studyabroad #conversation #customs #education #experience #foreigners #interaction #learning #selfimprovement #society #travel

Tomorrow, I'll be going back to school for another ask me anything on digital privacy. I've been doing those sessions for a while now, and I'm still amazed by how thoughtful young people's questions on the technologies in their lives actually are.

Don't believe the narrative they aren't critical about tech or do not care about their privacy. A lot of them are and they do, which gives me a lot of hope!
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#privacy #DataProtection #education

So there is value in oral examination (literally oral).

At Stanford University:
«Some classes have started reintroducing proctoring - the supervision of candidates during an examination - and spoken-word tests to avoid cheating, [Lucy Zimmerman, a computer science major who served as a teaching assistant] said.»

This is, of course, a detail of a much bigger picture.

BBC article:
Stanford was their golden ticket - could AI help or hinder that?
<https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c872j82j2qyo>

#AI
#ArtificialIntelligence
#Education
#LargeLanguageModels
#LLM
#LLMs
#UniversityEducation

"The #GOP-led House Committee on #Education and the #Workforce is also investigating the #union over #antisemitism, citing several of the same instances later outlined in the #BrandeisCenter complaint.

The #EEOC’s #NEA case is part of an expansion of the #Trump administration’s antisemitism investigations beyond college and K-12 campuses. Last week the U.S. Health and Human Services Department opened its own probe into the #American #Psychological Association, also based on a Brandeis Center complaint.

In addition to alleged harassment of #Jewish members at the convention, Miller said the center’s NEA complaint also involved diversity-based hiring practices at the union[...]"

In a former life I was something of a (small e) expert in labor movement strategy and giving the Trump admin ammunition to witch hunt you is just bad decision-making. This was completely foreseeable and totally avoidable.

https://www.jta.org/2026/06/23/united-states/feds-open-antisemitism-investigation-into-national-education-association

We're often told a key problem is the UK over-emphasises academic (university) education & an under-appreciates vocational training. so continued starving of Further Education of funds looks like madness (or just prejudice).

When private sector pay is rising at around 3-4% on average, to have FE Colleges likely unable to offer annual pay rises undermines their ability to retain staff who are frequently drawn from the trades.

We need to invest more in FE!

#education
https://feweek.co.uk/college-staff-face-zero-pay-rise-warning/

New to the #FreeSoftware movement and not sure where to start? Check out some of our videos on Framatube: u.fsf.org/3it #FSF #education

Name the #paradox whereby the more support a #neurodivergent person has, the less it is perceived that they need support and therefore the harder it is to access supports.

#Autism #ADHD #Education #Neurodiversity #Disability #neurodiverse

#InfiniteCampus #DataBreach affects 137,000 school staff accounts

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/infinite-campus-data-breach-affects-137-000-school-staff-accounts/

#education #privacy #cybersecurity

Ex-school district employee jailed for hacks on former employer

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ex-school-district-employee-jailed-for-hacks-on-former-employer/

#education #cybersecurity

NEW BOOK | 'After the Before Times: Teachers’ Experiences of Pandemic Pedagogy' by Sarah Barrett

Delve into the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns on teachers in Canada.

Read freely online or buy a copy: https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0529

#OAbooks #Teaching #OpenAccess #Education

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An image of the book in hardback on a colourful background alongside text that says: After the Before Times: Teachers’ Experiences of Pandemic Pedagogy by Sarah Barrett In March 2020, when schools across Ontario, Canada closed and emergency remote teaching and learning (ERTL) began, 160,000 teachers were abruptly separated from their students and from the relational fabric that sustains classroom life. After the Before Times documents how teachers experienced those early months of COVID-19 pandemic pedagogy—and what their stories reveal about the nature of teaching and learning. Drawing on interviews with fifty primary and secondary school teachers, Sarah Barrett moves beyond questions of technology and technique to explore relationships: with government, school boards, colleagues, parents, students, and self. In the ‘negative space’ of pandemic pedagogy, teachers identified what was hardest to replicate at a distance: trust, community, professional integrity, and care. Grounded in the African philosophy of Ubuntu, ‘I am because we are’, this book offers a timely reflection on crisis, integrity, and the relational foundations of a good quality education.

#GOPCorruptAF #GOPHatesYou
#USpolitics #environment #Healthcare #Education

#NottinghamUniversity #DataBreach affects over 450,000 students

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/nottingham-university-data-breach-affects-over-450-000-students/

#education #privacy #cybersecurity #Nottingham #university

‘BusPatrol’ Put #AI #Cameras in Tens of Thousands of #School #Buses. Now They Want to Give #Cops #Access

source: 404media.co/buspatrol-put-ai-c…
without paywall: archive.is/20260526155324/404m…

#BusPatrol is aware of the #controversy around #ALPR cameras, and particularly of the concern that #ICE may gain access to the data, according to the BusPatrol documents ...

The danger here, aside from the misuse of data, is above all that children grow up with this and come to see it as normal to be constantly monitored by cameras. A society under constant surveillance develops differently. It is more conformist, less critical, and very keen on blending into the crowd unnoticed and not standing out. This is exactly what the ruling elite wants: a society that silently endures everything because it fears #repression through the cameras.

#news #technology #children #security #cctv #surveillance #privacy #education #camera #society #future #politics #police #control #bigdata #bigtech #bigbrother #orwell #fear #kids #system #matrix #politics #economy #monitoring #tracking #abuse #video #danger #warning #humanity

spotted my junior high school vice principal in the local news 😬

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/school-superintendent-campbell-9.7227158

#yeg #alberta #education

"If you want to sell someone something, you first have to convince them that they need it. This rationalization is the likely source of a fundamental myth of the American public school system: that before the proliferation of compulsory, tax-payer funded schooling, Americans were ignorant and mostly illiterate."

"Authority will always try to convince you how helpless and bereft you would be without the authority. Americans were neither illiterate nor ignorant before forced schooling. Compulsory, tax-payer funded education has not been an overall improvement for the population, despite the billions of dollars and wasted hours spent on it. To claim Americans need government schools to learn is a grab for power and control, and ignores centuries’ worth of data and lived experience."

#Education #School #Literacy