Duolingo is a free language-learning and crowdsourced text translation platform. The service is designed so that, as users progress through the lessons, they simultaneously help to translate websites and other documents. They even offer Irish courses! And Duolingo won Best Education Startup at the 2014 Crunchies. Duolingo offers extensive written lessons and dictation, but it …
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Category:Education
You Can Learn Anything
The Learning Myth: Why I’ll Never Tell My Son He’s Smart by Salman Khan My 5-year-old son has just started reading. Every night, we lie on his bed and he reads a short book to me. Inevitably, he’ll hit a word that he has trouble with: last night the word was “gratefully.” He eventually got …
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We’re 20 years away from catastrophe, says PricewaterhouseCoopers.
“Low Carbon Economy Index,” a report released by the accounting giant PricewaterhouseCoopers, has numerous stark warnings. Sadly they are unlikely to be heeded by those that matter – big companies, governments and people like you and me – because those are the culprits identified in the report. According to the PricewaterhouseCoopers report, “the gap between …
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Homegrown Knowledge
Here’s a 15 minute video on Monica and Eddie’s homeschool. Monica and Eddie are being bullied by the state although they have strong community support (look at the comments on YouTube). The video shows what they are being prosecuted for doing … it’s mad!
We don’t need an education to save the planet …
I’ve liked this video since coming across it by accident about a decade ago. It’s still relavant and rocks …
10% of girls under 20 are raped. Is this civilisation?
About 120 million girls around the world – slightly more than one in 10 – have been raped or sexually assaulted by the age of 20, a UN report says. The children’s agency Unicef also says 95,000 children and teenagers – most of them in Latin America and the Caribbean – were murdered in 2012 …
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Stand up to bullies …
Monica and Eddie are amazing people. They work hard and do good. They have raised 6 children of their own and fostered others. They have successfully home-schooled their children. Now, when the Irish state asked them to fill in forms, they refused. Partly because it was an unnecessary bureaucratic pain – everyone knew their exemplary …
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Mr. BKS Iyengar’s Light shines on
Like millions of others, I have been influenced by this great yoga teacher, though I have never met him. I have read The Tree of Yoga. I refer to Light on Yoga and Light on Pranayama. I study Light on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. I use props to aid my alignment. I am aware …
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What’s So Scary About Smart Girls? They might fix things.
What’s So Scary About Smart Girls? is a provocative read in the NYT. It makes some sad observations and reiterates what evidence proves: that education makes life better and that emancipating and liberating females is the way to realise the great potential of humanity’s “better half”. For example: If you want to mire a nation …
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Sad but true: Violence against females is pervasive.
A broad based survey indicates that 1/3 of women in the EU are affected by violence. That should surprise you, but if you’re female, maybe it doesn’t. Clearly unfair prejudices still dominate modern, rich cultures. For example, it is saddening to still see and hear behaviour which puts down women. Clearly there are economic differences …
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