Tag: Education

  • There’s one pandemic you need to fear: functional illiteracy

    We have just gone through one “pandemic”, and now some “experts” are telling us that the next one is just round the corner. Humbug! But there’s one actual pandemic that should strike fear into everyone’s heart. Its name? FI, or functional illiteracy.

  • Learning for life

    Non scholae sed vitae discimus, as they used to say in Latin. We do not learn for school, but for life. There’s no difference between formal education (schools, colleges, universities) and informal education—except that you have to sit for exams and obtain a piece a paper under the former.