Thoreau, H. D. (1910). Walden.
“Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which it was already but too easy to arrive at…” (p 44)
Lanier, J. (2010). You Are Not a Gadget
“. Being a person is not a pat formula, but a quest, a mystery,” (p. 38)
Huxley (1932) Brave New World
Huxley Aldous. (1932). Brave New World. http://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.504222 … the World State’s motto — COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY. ” (p. 1) “process of human replication as an instrument of social stablity. Standard men and women ; in uniform batches.” (p 6) photograph film,” (p 10) [regarding huxley’s remark about photographic film: in Huxley’s time photographic film … Read more
A Brief Index of Selected Guidelines from the Seventh Edition of the APA Publication Manual
American Psychological Association. (2020). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association: The official guide to APA style. (Seventh edition.). American Psychological Association. sarahx1 . sarahx3 There are a number of guidelines in the APA Publication Manual that I had trouble finding at one time, so when I eventually found them I noted them down for myself … Read more
Standing & Jandrić (2015). Precariat, education and technologies: Towards a global class identity.
“We need a decommodification of all aspects of education, so that the cultural liberating elements come back to the foreground.” (p 993)
Moriarty (2011). New roles for endangered languages.
“The advantages of endangered language media and pop-culture presence are many. First, such presence fulfils an important symbolic function and challenges the traditional ideologies and associations of endangered languages with labels such as ‘outdated’ and ‘backward’ …” (p 447)
The Bill That Wasn’t There
“As I see it, the bottom line is this — the constitutionality of Bill 28 will only be under question if the Bill ever comes into force. Not a moment before.”
Carr (2006). Professional and personal values and virtues in education and teaching.
“For although we should expect doctors and lawyers to improve the conditions of their patients and clients in the relevant legal and health related respects, we should not normally hold them responsible for the wider personal and moral improvement of others. But schools and teachers are widely held to account by politicians, employers, parents and the public at large for such moral improvement …” (p 177)
Selwyn (2016). Minding our language: why education and technology is full of bullshit… and what might be done about it.
“Perhaps, we need a language of education and technology that unpacks more aptly the underlying functions of these technologies and exposes their political intent.” (p 441-442)