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Derek Bok, president of Harvard
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Cauliflower
Cauliflower is nothing but Cabbage with a College Education.
Mark Twain
Kids on Facebook? No thanks!
Different sites (among them Gizmodo with Sam Biddle and Cnet with Liz Gannes) report that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told to CNN (Here) that “[...] he would like to create a safe and educational social networking environment for kids younger than 13. (According to Consumer Reports, 7.5 million such American kids already use Facebook by lying about their age.)
“That will be a fight we take on at some point,” Zuckerberg reportedly said of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, which mandates parental permission and other protections for young users. [...]” (Full articles here and here).
I think that having a dedicated social network for kids is not a good idea.
And is not a good idea to have it lead by Mr. Zuckerberg who proved us to be so “capable” of ensuring privacy and security in the past.
I also think that children deserve the right to approach Internet under a protected approach to ensure that is a discovery and not a nightmare.
Have we all lost so much creativity in business we have to turn to kids to make money?
This post as a comment also here and here
A fool’s brain
A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
G. B. Shaw
Daily Mumble: meritocracy for all
I often find how difficult is for people really capable to emerge if they have not some prerequisites (university degree in some university, find the “good train” to follow an a merging leader, do a good corridor management,…).
Is very sad, because this determines even more often a management where relational skills are more important than operational skills.
But this brings value to a company only if those skills are applied to bring benefit to the company and not to make the management survive.
Daily Mumble: Dealing with children
Dealing with children is always difficult, especially if you have a work very complex or time consuming.
I think that a lot of patience is needed, also if sometimes is not enough.
What makes me think is that when I think I’ve managed to understand mine, everything is changed… 
Children and parents, 40 years and a different approach
I came through this cartoon from Cagle cartoons (http://www.caglecartoons.com/images/preview/%7Be4e28807-361d-44b2-8681-b42f76405d24%7D.gif) through Geeks are sexy (full article at http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2011/02/12/bad-grades-1960-vs-2010-cartoon)
This is very important for me because reminds me a s a father of how big is the shift that occurred in dealing with children from my times (I’m 39 so not so long ago) and now.
I think that the good stands between the two situations, because yelling every time at children is not educating them, but also is not educational to protect them when they are wrong.
Today living in a hurry and focusing on work and career and materialism doesn’t help in educating children and make easier to yell at those who, with their actions and judgments, oblige the parents to assume their responsibilities.
Which is the best way to behave as parents? For me is “the old one”, leaving some flexibility in order not to frustrate children. But transmitting to our children some respect for rules and education.
This post as a comment also at http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2011/02/12/bad-grades-1960-vs-2010-cartoon
Church and religion
Going to church does not make a person religious, nor does going to school make a person educated, any more than going to a garage makes a person a car.
Anonymous priest
Biology
Biology is the only science in which multiplication means the same thing as division.
Anonymous scientist
Do, teach and administrate
Those who can, do. Those who can’t, teach. Those who can’t teach, administrate.
Anonymous
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