In The Student: A Short History (Yale UP, 2023), Michael S. Roth narrates a vivid and dynamic history of students, exploring some of the principal models for learning that have developed in very different contexts, from the sixth century BCE to the present.
Beginning with the followers of Confucius, Socrates, and Jesus and moving to medieval apprentices, students at Enlightenment centers of learning, and learners enrolled in twenty-first-century universities, he explores how students have been followers, interlocutors, disciples, rebels, and children becoming adults. There are many ways to be a student, Roth argues, but at their core is developing the capacity to think for oneself by learning from others, and thereby finding freedom.
In an age of machine learning, this book celebrates the student who develops more than mastery, cultivating curiosity, judgment, creativity, and an ability to keep learning beyond formal schooling. Roth shows how the student throughout history has been someone who interacts dynamically with the world, absorbing its lessons and creatively responding to them.
Micheal Roth is president of Wesleyan University.Â
Benjamin Phillips is an MA student in History at Ohio University. His primary field is Late Antique Cultural and Intellectual History.
The Sahara desert is by far the largest desert in the world. It evokes images of sand dunes, camels and just being really really dry.
However, it didnât always use to be that way. Quite recently, at least geologically speaking, it was a place with grasslands and forests.Â
While it disappeared and became a desert, some think a green Sahara might return.Â
Learn more about how the Sahara desert wasnât always a desert, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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We're telling you about a summer weather record and a new rule that impacts the largest remaining stretch of untouched wilderness in the U.S.
Also, there's an update about a controversial kiss that happened after Spain won the women's World Cup.
Plus, it looks like Mexico will have its first woman president, a new move opens the door for more drones to fly farther and reach more people, and some new words made it into the dictionary.Â
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It's only been five weeks since Justice Janet Protasiewicz was sworn in to the Wisconsin Supreme Court, but state Republicans are hell-bent on getting her kicked off the court before she even hears her first case. In their latest effort, Republicans in the state are floating the idea of impeaching Protasiewicz for statements she made about legislative maps.
The Biden administration announced on Wednesday that it will ban drilling in 13 million acres of wilderness in Alaskaâs Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Plus, the administration said that it will also cancel the drilling leases that were issued under former President Donald Trump.
And in headlines: a federal judge ordered Texas to remove its floating barrier in the Rio Grande and banned it from building a new one, Spanish soccer player Jenni Hermoso formally accused Spanish soccer chief Luis Rubiales of sexual assault, and Air Canada kicked two passengers off of a flight for refusing to sit in vomit-stained seats.
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Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville doesnât appear bothered by criticism from those who say his blocking of military promotions over a Defense Department policy relating to abortion funding is âunprecedented.â
âI donât care what they say. I was an elected senator from the state of Alabama,â says Tuberville, who won his Senate seat in November 2020.Â
âAgain, if I was affecting readiness ⌠I do truly believe in our military and the things that we knew to be prepared. Weâre as prepared now as we were last March, when I started this. Itâs not affecting readiness at all,â Tuberville says, adding:Â
Iâve had military personnel call me. Iâve had veterans. I had a letter from 5,000 veterans that said, âWeâre all behind you, Coach. Keep on doing this. We do not need a woke military.â
Tuberville joins todayâs episode of âThe Daily Signal Podcastâ to discuss why heâs against the Defense Department policy on abortion and his subsequent efforts to block military promotions; whether he has spoken with anyone at the Pentagon about the policy; and Title IX as it relates to biological males taking part in girlsâ and womenâs athletics.
Paris Marx is joined by Dean Preston to discuss the havoc robotaxis are wreaking in San Francisco and the wider impacts the tech industry has had on the city. Â Dean Preston is the District 5 Supervisor in San Francisco and the first democratic socialist elected in the city in 40 years. Heâs also a tenant attorney and founder of Tenants Together. You can follow Dean on Twitter at @DeanPreston.
Tech Wonât Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, and support the show on Patreon.
Paris interviewed one of the activists placing cones driverless cars to disable them and draw attention to the California Public Utilities Commissionâs pro-corporate regulatory decisions.
In 2011, Twitter got a massive tax break to stay in San Francisco instead of moving its offices elsewhere in the Valley.
A ballot measure to increase the transfer tax on properties over $10 million won in 2020, despite industry opposition.
The campaign against progressive district attorney Chesa Boudin was bankrolled by tech and real estate money. Jacob Silverman put this into wider context in a piece about the rise in the political influence of David Sacks.
Math and reading scores plummeted during the year of virtual learning. Kids are now back in the classroomâbut they arenât back on track. What will it take to catch up a generation âand do schools have the will and resources to make it happen?
Guest: Alec MacGillis, reporter for ProPublica.
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