It took me most of my young life to figure this out. After growing up as a precocious political junkie I got jaded pretty early. I grew up in a rural conservative family but somehow, deep-down I’m an urban technophile who often hopes there’s no problem that walkable neighbourhoods and Twitter hashtags can’t solve. In [...]
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Are conventional ideas about education actually counterproductive? Does advocacy based on those ideas set back the cause in the long run? The Globe and Mail ran an op-ed about education on Monday that got me on the subject. “Creating a culture of learning” addresses the problem of school dropouts, citing the success of Chinese immigrants [...]
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