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By high school Sam had decided that he just didn’t like school, which was odd for a person who would finish at the top of his class. He’d also decided that at least some of the fault lay not with him but with school.
Michael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
Mansbridge | Journal of Deliberative Democracy
delibdemjournal.orgWhat distinguished libertarians from mainstream pro-business Republicans—Mailer’s parade of delegates in Miami Beach—was their pure and uncompromising idea. What was it? Hayek: “Planning leads to dictatorship.” The purpose of government is to secure individual rights, little else.
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Stanford lui offre son premier centre de recherche sur la loi et les nouvelles technologies. En embuscade au cœur de la Silicon Valley, il compte inventer le droit de l’Internet, espace de circulation des idées et de la connaissance qui bouleverse les règles de la propriété intellectuelle sur lesquelles prospère toute une industrie. Larry Lessig ve
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In choosing a college to attend, Sam sought to ensure he’d never again be made to write an essay about Jane Austen. But even MIT, where he eventually landed, had a humanities requirement. A single liberal arts class, which he satisfied by taking film history, but even that grated on him.
Michael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
one could find other ways to tailor the teaching to the needs of individual students. One possibility is to make the boundaries between the grades more fluid, so that a child whose age puts him in fifth grade but who needs to take second-grade classes in some subjects can do so without additional stigma.