Written for Mercury magazine. “The one quality which sets one individual apart from another – the key which lifts one to every aspiration while others are caught up in the mire of mediocrity – is not talent, formal education, nor intellectual brightness; it is self-discipline. With self-discipline, all things are possible. Without it, even the […]
Written for Mercury magazine. “Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.” – H. G. Wells, 1920 I suppose that introductions are in order. For a long time, this space has been filled by the “Education Newswire” columns of Leo Connolly. Dr. Connolly’s column made us think about important education issues […]
This article by Jeffrey Bennett reprinted from Mercury magazine, Nov/Dec 1999 issue. …scientists should be no more willing to fly blind in their teaching than they are in scientific research, where no new investigation is begun without an extensive examination of what is already known. –Bruce Alberts, former President of the National Academy of Sciences […]
Jeffrey O. Bennett, University of Colorado at Boulder William L. Briggs, University of Colorado at Denver This article appeared in AMATYC Review, Fall 1999 “Philosophy is written in this grand book – I mean the universe – which stands continuous open to our gaze, but it cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend […]
